Re: [PHP] Encoding Ampersands

[email protected] (Rick Dwyer) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:29:37 -0400

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So htmlentities() will work for "Green, Red & Blue"?

Will it work for "....htm?color=blue&number=2&letter=...."?

--Rick





On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:23 AM, Josh Kehn wrote:

> Rick-
> 
> Probably would use htmlentities() instead. You could also do str_replace("&", "&amp;");
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Josh
> 
> On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Rick Dwyer wrote:
> 
>> Hello List.
>> 
>> I have variables displaying content from mysql fields.  The contents contains & like "Dogs & Cats"... so naturally the W3C validator chokes on them.
>> 
>> Is there a way to encode so they display properly on the page but the validator is OK with them?
>> 
>> 
>> Is the answer as simple as:
>> 
>> urlencode($myvar)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> --Rick
>> 
>> 
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