Re: Handling HTML special chars from user generated content ( e.g. forms)

2008-08-29 Thread Mark (Germany)
i dont see the reason for changing them to HTML code anyway - as with utf8 they can all be handled and displayed as they originally are. On 28 Aug., 17:46, worthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You saved my day. :D > > I was messing with this problem the whole day and never thought it > would be t

Re: Handling HTML special chars from user generated content ( e.g. forms)

2008-08-28 Thread worthy
You saved my day. :D I was messing with this problem the whole day and never thought it would be that simple :). Thank you so much for this simple solution! Greetings worthy On 28 Aug., 17:38, Günther Theilen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > do you use the form helper? > If so try somethin

Re: Handling HTML special chars from user generated content ( e.g. forms)

2008-08-28 Thread Günther Theilen
Hi, do you use the form helper? If so try something like this: $form->input('foo.bar', array('escape' => false)) Regards Guenther worthy schrieb: > Another explaining example for the edit form: > > http://localhost/regions/edit/15 > > data['Regions']['id']=15 > data['Regions']['name']='Test

Re: Handling HTML special chars from user generated content ( e.g. forms)

2008-08-28 Thread worthy
Another explaining example for the edit form: http://localhost/regions/edit/15 data['Regions']['id']=15 data['Regions']['name']='Test ä' Now when cakephp fills the form with this data the value of the field changes from 'Test ä' to 'Test ä' And so the field shows 'Test ä instead of 'Test

Re: Handling HTML special chars from user generated content ( e.g. forms)

2008-08-28 Thread worthy
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)) {

Handling HTML special chars from user generated content ( e.g. forms)

2008-08-28 Thread worthy
Hi bakers, as by the last week i am really getting into CakePHP and enjoy the easeness of the creation process. But i have one simple problem. In every form of the project where users can input data, they can for example input ( ä,ö,ü, é... and special chars like %§"%/ or whatever) So i want to