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typography class & and & - El Forum - 04-30-2009
[eluser]Flying Fish[/eluser]
I'm using codeigniter for an app that generates xml files which are then imported into Adobe inDesign.
Users input data into form inputs, the data is stored in a db, and an administrator can log into the back end and download xml files.
Trouble is, inDesign chokes on the '&' character when it sits in the text of the xml tags.
inDesign does however correctly handle the html &
I was wondering if I should write a function that does a string replace on '&' before each xml file is created, or if there was a more fancy codeigniter way of doing it with the typography class.
typography class & and & - El Forum - 04-30-2009
[eluser]Dam1an[/eluser]
When you say the HTML &, do you mean & amp ;?
One of the text/typography helpers can probably do that, as I'm pretty sure one of them converts stuff like <, > etc to & lt ;, & gt ; etc
Edit: Added some spaces in the HTML chars
typography class & and & - El Forum - 04-30-2009
[eluser]Flying Fish[/eluser]
yes sorry, the html ampersand
Code:
&had to wrap it in code tags
typography class & and & - El Forum - 04-30-2009
[eluser]Dam1an[/eluser]
Hmm.. Can't find anything for & amp ; in the typography helper/class
This should be good enough
Code:
str_replace("&", "&", $my_string_with_ampersands);typography class & and & - El Forum - 04-30-2009
[eluser]Flying Fish[/eluser]
ya I didn't see anything in there either, but figured it was worth an ask, thanks for the reply