On Mon, October 9, 2006 7:45 am, benifactor wrote: > the way i posted worked fine with out either... he doesn't need to use > these > to format the way his output is displayed, he only needs to use the > proper > php syntax if i am correct. You were wrong, and you're still wrong. :-) Try it and see. http://php.net/htmlentities is the correct solution. htmlspecialchars only catches a tiny subset of what *might* be in the string... So it will work if you can guarantee that only those limited set of chars will ever be in there. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php