escape:html not working [SOLVED]

[thomahawk]

I have the news module installed. The summary template contains this:

{$entry->summary|cms_escape:htmlall}

but that text does display <p></p> tags. Some editors somehow happen to get those in their texts, I don't know why. But i was under the impression that escape:htmlall should make them disappear. Why does this not work? Anyone out there with the same experience?

[velden]

I think you don't want to escape but to strip the tags

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{$entry->summary|strip_tags}

[thomahawk]

Hello velden

Indeed! This works. Yet, It seems I don't understand what escape:htmlall is for.

Thank you,
Thom

[velden]

Escaping in html means you do NOT want special characters to be interpreted as special character but just printed like it's used in the 'source'.

E.g.: < > are characters that are NOT printed by the browser but interpreted as start and end of an tag (like <p> for starting a paragraph).

Escaping '<p>' will make sure that literal text is displayed in the browser. Probably by replacing it with '<p>'

EDIT:
cms_escape:htmlall is equivalent of http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

[Jo Morg]

Just to add a bit to what velden said, cms_escape works the same as http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language. ... escape.tpl except its default char-set is utf-8.
Other than that just look at the link for specifics.