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Title with HTML coe instead of symbols
I have a lot of titles with Ampersands and such in them... and I enter them like "&"

So wjhen someone searches and one of these come up, it looks like this: The Poet & Peasant

How can I make it The Poet & Peasant?
dave

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Big Comic Book DataBase
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Hi,

Is there any reason you are doing it that way? & is totally fine in your HTML (as long as you use GT::CGI::html_escape($Title), or whatever fieldm, to convert " into " & into &, etc) . That should solve you problem if you do it that way :)

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Re: [Andy] Title with HTML coe instead of symbols In reply to
just always thought it was proper to use &apm; for &....

So I can just do an "Update Links SET Title = REPLACE(Title, '&', '&'); and suffer no ill effects?
dave

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Yup, that should be fine - just be sure to make a phpmyadmin/mysqldump backup of the tables first though - in case it doesn't work as you want :)

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Re: [Andy] Title with HTML coe instead of symbols In reply to
OK - I just want to make it sure it was HTML compliant or whatever! The SQL code is correct, that I am sure of!
dave

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Re: [carfac] Title with HTML coe instead of symbols In reply to
Yeah, that should be fine :) As I said, make sure you run the fields that contain those kinda charachters in via html_escape() to properly encode it so your pages stay compliant :)