[Solar-talk] html formatting and escape()

[Jeff Surgeson]

Hi Paul

I am trying to allow some basic html formatting, <b></b> <i></i> in a 
textarea, however $this->escape($item['description']) only returns nicely 
escaped html.

When I look at your escape function you are only using htmlspecialchars() so 
if I echo $this->escape($item['description']) and variable 
$item['description'] contains the string "<a href='test'>Test</a>" it should 
return something like &lt;a href=&#039;test&#039;&gt;Test&lt;/a&gt;

But it does not, it only returns nicely escaped text "<a href='test'>Test</a>"

Am I missing something here?

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Jeff Surgeson