Re: [studs-user] Text field specialchars

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Juan Carlos Rey Anaya <jc...@um...>:

> Juan Carlos Rey Anaya wrote:
>> Hello again...
>> I have a form in which a field represents html code written by the user.
>> I have observed the text value that gets inserted in the DB is escaped.
>
> Well, One more time I have lost inside code and couldn't detect where
> the string is escaped :-(
> But, I have detected the function that makes the final espace:
>
> WEB_INF/lib/horizon/util/StringUtils::escapeString
>
> As I don't know is this behabiour is configurable, I have recurred to a
> home-made remedy :-)
> unescaping the final string returned by the ActionForm setter method.
> If it were of interest to somebody, here is the function that makes it.
>
>
> function unescapeString($string, $charsToUnescape = array('\''),
> $escapeChar = '\\')
> {
> 	foreach ($charsToUnescape as $charToUnescape)
> 	{
>         	$chr_unescaped = str_replace($escapeChar, '', $charToUnescape);
> 		$string = str_replace($escapeChar . $chr_unescaped, $chr_unescaped,
> $string);
> 	}
> 	return $string;
> }
>

Thanks.  It makes sense that you need to unescape before setting the 
values for the form elements.

Earnie Boyd
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