Re: [WSG] Problem Validating CSS

[Chris Stratford]

Thanks James,

one thing - is this correct?

If you are putting data into a data store it's wise to stripslashes(), strip_tags() and other characters that can cause problems.

or did you mean:

addslashes();
strip_tags();

not - stripslashes... because addslashes escapes the charaters which are problem causers.

Chris Stratford
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James Ellis wrote:

Peter Firminger wrote:

Sorry, I don't do PHP. Someone else may have a PHP solution for you.

P
  

I think I did a pretty long post a while back on this subject - probably good to search for it in the archive.

Anyway, the PHP way to do the CF in Peter's example is:

$newString = htmlspecialchars($oldString);
or
$newString = htmlentities($oldString);

The relevant core PHP functions are:

• htmlspecialchars
• htmlentities
• html_entity_decode
• get_html_translation_table

If you are putting data into a data store it's wise to stripslashes(), strip_tags() and other characters that can cause problems.

All available in the PHP manual at php.net/manual/

Cheers
James

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