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#1 2006-03-17 18:04:58

tenthumbs

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Registered: 2004-11-22

Posts: 19

encode ampersands in custom fields

I’m using an external field to hold the url for external content in a linkblog kind of way, but the problem is that it won’t validate beacause for unencoded ampersands. So what i’m looking for is a way to encode the contents of that field.

There has been suggested an enchancement of the <txp:custom_field /> tag here , but I wondered if someone had any ideas on how to solve this in the current version of textpattern.

#2 2006-03-20 21:21:28

tenthumbs

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Registered: 2004-11-22

Posts: 19

Re: encode ampersands in custom fields

no one has run into the same problem?

#3 2006-03-20 21:28:15

placenamehere

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Registered: 2004-11-21

Posts: 88

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Re: encode ampersands in custom fields

my initial thought would be to write a plugin that gets that filed for you and encodes it on the flyinstead of pulling it with txp:custom_field

but no, I haven’t hit this (since I haven’t used custom fields much) so I don’t have a solution already written and handy myself

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#4 2006-03-20 22:55:19

Mary

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Registered: 2004-06-27

Posts: 6,236

Re: encode ampersands in custom fields

Or just makeup a simple htmlspecialchars plugin.

function ext_htmlspecialchars($atts, $thing = '')
{
    if ($thing)
    {
        return htmlspecialchars(parse($thing), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
    }
}

<txp:ext_htmlspecialchars><txp:custom_field name="FieldName" /></txp:ext_htmlspecialchars>

#5 2006-03-20 23:22:21

tenthumbs

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Registered: 2004-11-22

Posts: 19

Re: encode ampersands in custom fields

Thank you so much, Mary!
That did the trick, and it also served as a good example on how to solve simple problems like this writing a plugin.

#6 2006-03-23 08:38:44

Jeff_K

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From: Vancouver, British Columbia

Registered: 2005-08-19

Posts: 202

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Re: encode ampersands in custom fields

Mary! thats awesome. I have been thinking about tackling this for a while. Jeff.