I am using tinyMCE and, rather annoyingly, it replaces all of my apostrophes with their HTML numeric equivalent. Now most of the time this isn't a problem but for some reason I am having a problem storing the apostrophe replacement. So i have to search through the string and replace them all. Any help would be much appreciated
did you try:
$string = str_replace("'", "<replacement>", $string);
Is it just apostrophes that you want decoded from HTML entities, or everything?
print html_entity_decode("Hello, that's an apostophe.", ENT_QUOTE);
will print
Hello, that's an apostrophe.
Why work around the problem when you can fix the cause? You can just turn of the TinyMCE entity encoding*. More info: here
*Unless you want all the other characters encoded, that is.
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I am having some problems trying to datamine this site, maybe you can help?
$content = file_get_contents('http://store.steampowered.com/app/8190/');
$regexp='#(.*?)#';
preg_match($regexp,$content,$string1);
print_r($string1);
This code doesn't seem to work, maybe it seems obvious to you? Thanks :)
You have not escaped the hyperlink tag, try this:
$regexp='#<a\s+href\s+=\s+"http://store\.steampowered\.com/search/\?category2=2"\s+class\s+=\s+"name">(.*?)</a>#';
You need to escape parts of the string that you do not want parsed as special regex characters such as '?'.
I just want to add in tag any string.
I am using this code to escape string:
$name = $this->_dom->createElement('name', htmlspecialchars($userName, ENT_COMPAT,'utf-8'));
$item->appendChild($name);
I got a problem, one of my users put to name field some specific symbols, and whole xml feed become broken. How i must escaping string?
Thank for help and sorry for my poor English...
I think adding the xml node's value by using createTextNode instead of passing it as a parameter to createElement may solve your problem.
My solution:
$title = $this->_dom->createElement('title',
htmlspecialchars($playlist->getTitle(),
ENT_DISALLOWED, 'utf-8')
);
And when you output xml, you must strip � (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER) see this related link about ENT_DISALLOWED like:
echo str_replace('�', '', $this->_dom->saveXML());
This way allows us to display any string with html entities and/or special chars.
I am trying to display a data into textarea which is fetched from tables that i have submitted via another form. The issue comes up when a new line is entered.
The data getting displayed in the textarea is as
lin1\r\nlin2
it should be like
lin1
lin2
I have tried nl2br but it does not work as expected.
How can i make things optimized. Thanks
This problem can be solved using stripcslashes() when outputting your data.
Please note that the method above is different from stripslashes() which doesn't work in this case.
I tried using nl2br but it wasn't sufficient either.
I hope str_replace saves you.
<?php
$str='lin1\r\nlin2';
$str=str_replace('\r\n','<br>',$str);
echo $str;
OUTPUT:
lin1
lin2
This is a common question and the most common answers are ln2br or str_replace.
However this is just creating unnecessary code.
In reality the problem is pretty much always that you have run the data through a mysql escape function before displaying it. Probably while you were in the process of saving it. Instead, escape the data for saving but display an unescaped version.
<?php echo str_replace('\r\n', "\r\n", $text_with_line_breaks); ?>
See single quotes & double quotes this is a trick.
A perfect solution for newbies.
you overdo quote in insert/update statement
This problem in you case you can solve doing next
<?php
$str = 'lin1\r\nlin2';
$solved_str = str_replace(array("\\r","\\n"), array("\r","\n"), $str);
var_dump($str,$solved_str);
But you need to check insert/update statement on over quotation escape symbols
I would recommend using double quotes for \r\n such as "\r\n". I've never had it work properly with single quotes.
For non- textarea use this function
function escapeNonTextarea($string){
$string=str_replace(array('\n','\r\n','\r'),array("<br>","<br","<br>"),$string);
return $string;
}
For text area use this function
function escapeTextarea($string){
$string=str_replace(array('\n','\r\n','\r'),array("\n","\r\n","\r"),$string);
return $string;
}
call appropriate function and pass argument
I am looking for the best way to strip single quotes as it keeps breaking my important.
so
The image’s emotiveness enables
only comes through as
The image
It breaks at the single quote ' .I need a good way to strip out the tags can someone help.
I have looked at stripslashes();
Whats the best way function to stripout , - £
any help please.
MANAGED TO FIX IT>
Thank you for your help people i manage to fix it using the following function.
string utf8_encode ( string $data )
Cant figure out why it was coming out in that format from the database all i can think is it 6 years old website.
;)
I'm not 100% certain because PHP isn't my forte, but I think you need to look at something like urlencode(). This will encode all the special characters properly.
Note: This will remove all single quotes!
str_replace("'", "", $your_string);
example:
$your_string = "The image’s emotiveness enables.";
echo str_replace("'", "", $your_string);
output
The images emotiveness enables.
If you want to keep single quotes in string you should consider using real escape functions (recommended).
It sounds like what you really want is to encode the single quotes, not remove them. On the assumption that you are inserting into the MySQL database, look into mysql_real_escape_string.
The best way to get rid of specific characters is using str_replace.
To remove all single quotes from a string:
$noQuotes = str_replace("'", '', $stringWithQuotes);
There is several ways, depending on what are you doing.
You could use addslashes to escape all single / double quotes. You can unescape it with stripslashes later.
If you are planning on saving those data into MySQL database, you should use mysql_real_escape_string.
If you want to output data on HTML page, use htmlspecialchars to convert all special characters into HTML entities.
The next way is to use str_replace to remove all quotes, as few other people in this thread already mentioned.
when I view source on my php page I get " for a quote. But instead, I would like " to be used in the source code. I have no control over manually replacing it so Im wondering if there is a function to do such a thing.
If you have access to the PHP and want to change all html special characters to their rightful variations use:
print htmlspecialchars_decode($string);
You could do this very simply using str_replace.
$string = str_replace('"', '"', $string);
However, as Levi said, why not just leave it this way? It should have no effect on the display.