html_entities() http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Hope this helps - Craige On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:13 AM, It Maq <itmaqurfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a page that displays data entered by the user. There is one user that entered the character "&" inside the text he typed. For this case the xhtml validation fails and gives me the following error: > "character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data." > > I'm wondering if there is a way to avoid this error. The page itself is valid and fails just in the case the user enters the & character. > > Thank you > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php