On 29 November 2010 19:24, Micky Hulse <mickyhulse.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking at this ExpressionEngine plugin: > > <http://expressionengine.com/downloads/details/xml_encode/> > Description: This plugin converts reserved XML characters to entities. > ÂIt is used in the RSS templates. > > ... Curious about this code: > > trim(str_replace(array('/', ' '), array("/", ' '), $str)); > > The plugin author used the above bit of code in the return statement. > > Just curious if their is any particular reason why one would want to > replace / and with / and   respectively? > > For example, I am writing a similar plugin which utilizes > htmlentities()... I guess I am just wondering if I should apply the > same code as above to my entity-converted string? > > Thoughts? > > Thanks! > Micky I'm guessing that is only valid in HTML. Not sure why / would be encoded as it isn't anything too special outside of the closing tag. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
