Re: De-sanitize for Text Boxes

just dont sanitize them in the first place
the problem must be caused by something else
usually cake escapes them automatically

is everything UTF-8? especially the db? (careful: utf8 not uft-8
here!)

On 2 Aug., 03:34, Ponch316 <ponch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to CakePHP and I came across a little problem.
>
> I created a scaffold to upload a list of schools to my database and
> after uploading about 400, I noticed that some of the schools were
> disappearing both from the scaffold view and the database. Since no
> one else has access to my system, I realized that the only possible
> reason for that is that some characters I entered, like apostrophes
> ('), hyphens (-), and commas (,), caused trouble in the database
> somehow.
>
> I created a new scaffold using Bake and decided use Sanitize::clean()
> before saving. So far, schools are no longer disappearing, but when I
> try to edit one of these, the characters are NOT displayed correctly
> in the text boxes (e.g: O&#039;Malley). I tried using the PHP method
> htmlspecialchars_decode() (http://us.php.net/htmlspecialchars_decode)
> before sending $this->data to the view but it didn't work, characters
> are still showing up like that.
>
> I was wondering if someone could help me to solve this problem. I
> don't know if I'm doing something wrong, cuz I'm very surprised that
> Cake has problems handling special characters, since a lot of last
> names use apostrophes. If you think I should use a different approach,
> please let me know as well.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Ponch316
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