Don't call htmlentities until the last possible micro-second before
you echo the data to the HTML/browser.

That way you can be sure the data you have is the data you think you
have.

On Sun, July 22, 2007 11:23 pm, Bruce Cowin wrote:
> I'm using PHP 5.1 on IIS.  I have an app that uses MimeDecode to load
> mime files and I've built an object to parse them into their various
> parts; i.e., $msg->Body(), $msg->Sender(), etc.  I'm using stripos()
> to
> look for a string (that I know is in my test files).  It works if I
> search in $msg->Body(), but doesn't work if I build a variable and
> search it.  i.e.,
>
> this works:
>
> if (!stripos($msg->Body(), 'xxxx') === false)
> {
>       echo "\n found in Body()\n";
> }
>
>
> but this doesn't (I've tried it with and without htmlentities()):
>
> $searchtext = htmlentities($msg->Sender()) . htmlentities($msg->To())
> .
> htmlentities($msg->Cc()) . htmlentities($msg->Subject()) .
> htmlentities($msg->Body());
> if (!stripos($searchtext, 'xxxx') === false)
> {
>       echo "\nstring found!\n";
> }
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce
>
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