Re: Character Entity References

..oO(ft310)

We had a consultant write some PHP software for us which in most
respects is working, but we have one issue we are having trouble
comprehending.

If the following company name "Jones & Jones" were entered into this
software, it appears in our database as {Jones & Jones} (brackets
mine).

How do we characterize this and what is {&} called.

The value in the DB should be "Jones & Jones" and nothing else. The
escaping is taking place only when you output the name to an HTML page.

Actually the & is called a named character reference (entity). Some
characters like the ampersand '&' for example have a special meaning in
HTML, which is why you have to write them as character references if you
want to output them as a literal string.

But what's the problem or the question?

Micha
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