Hi bakers again :), i managed to do it another way. These two function provided below are the key for it. As you can see I placed them inside of the app_controller.php
class AppController extends Controller { function htmlchars($data) { if (empty($data)) { return $data; } if (is_array($data)) { foreach ($data as $key => $val) { $data[$key] = $this->htmlchars($val); } return $data; } else { $patterns = array("/\&/", "/%/", "/</", "/>/", '/"/', "/'/", "/\ (/", "/\)/", "/\+/", "/-/", "/ä/", "/Ä/", "/ö/", "/Ö/", "/ü/", "/Ü/"); $replacements = array("&", "%", "<", ">", """, "'", "(", ")", "+", "-", "ä", "Ä", "ö", "Ö", "ü", "Ü"); $data = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $data); return $data; } } function unhtmlchars($data) { if (empty($data)) { return $data; } if (is_array($data)) { foreach ($data as $key => $val) { $data[$key] = $this->unhtmlchars($val); } return $data; } else { $patterns = array("/&/", "/%/", "/</", "/>/", "/ "/", "/'/", "/(/", "/)/", "/+/", "/-/", "/ ä/", "/Ä/", "/ö/", "/Ö/", "/ü/", "/Ü/"); $replacements = array("&", "%", "<", ">", '"', "'", "(", ")", "+", "-", "ä", "Ä", "ö", "Ö", "ü", "Ü"); $data = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $data); return $data; } } } So if i retrieve any data for a view i simply do $cleandata = $this- >htmlchars($this->data); and use $cleandata for now on. The same with unhtmlchars(). The only problem i have now is the following. Lets say I have an edit form with a "Name" field. If the Name contains no special chars like "ä","ö","ü" etc. the value of the field is filled automatically through the $form helper, but if the Name contains one of those special chars, the field is not filled. I don't know how to solve this. Please help me as I'm stuck here. Thanks in advance worthy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---