Re: [PHP] Encoding Ampersands

On 07/28/2010 11:29 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote:
> So htmlentities() will work for "Green, Red & Blue"?
> 
> Will it work for "....htm?color=blue&number=2&letter=...."?
> 
> --Rick

For ampersands yes, for other things no.  Use the correct tool for the
job.  To output HTML use htmlentities().  To pass in the URL use
urlencode().

At some point you're going to have a value that contains a = or ? or
something else that you need to pass in the URL.  That's what
urlencode() is for.

> 
> 
> On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:23 AM, Josh Kehn wrote:
> 
>> Rick-
>>
>> Probably would use htmlentities() instead. You could also do str_replace("&", "&");
>>
>> 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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