[Catalyst] html escaping question

Ash Berlin ash_cpan at firemirror.com
Wed Mar 21 09:38:32 GMT 2007



Mario Minati wrote:
> Hello @all,
> 
> as you could help me that fast and excellent yesterday I have an other 
> question to you ;)
> 
> What is the best/common practice to get text that might containt html 
> escapable characters (e. g. '&', '<') from a form field to catalyst to db and 
> back to form field?
> 
> At the moment I'm thinking of not doing any html escaping at all and believe 
> in unicode to handle the encoding correctly, but I would ran into problems 
> with '<funname>'. 
> 
> So if I escape a string and send it back to the form the content of the 
> textfield is '&lt;funame&gt;'. Why is that?
> 
> Again every thought is allmost welcome.
> 
> Greets,
> Mario Minati

I'll asume you are using TT since you didn't say otherwise'

[% '<funname>' | html %]



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