Need help converting HTML Special Characters into character codes

I have a problem on my new video site, for which videos are pulled from YouTube.

It appears that for one video+description, there's <a href> tag that is opened, but not termintaed. (line 266, col 347 (of the page source, not the internal code)

I was told to convert HTML Special Characters into character codes instead before writing it to the browser.

Unfortunately, I know nothing abot PHP, so I have no idea what to do.

 

You have to find the variable (beginning with $) of the description, and insert

$variable_name = htmlspecialchars($variable_name);

row before display it (search echo/print commands).

 

I can't really find the variable

Based on the piece of code below, I assume it is $parse_desc
?

// Make description short

		$parse_desc=explode(" ",$line['content']); 
		if(count($parse_desc)>25){
			$line['content']="";
			for($p=0;$p<25;$p++){$line['content'].=$parse_desc[$p]." ";}
			$line['content']=trim($line['content'])."...";

		}

PHP:

 

try

$line['content'] = htmlspecialchars($line['content']);

 

Call me dumb, but I can't get it to work.

tihan, would you mind doing it for me?

 

Based on the code above, if you copy my line after the code, it should work. If it's not working I have no idea what is the problem, sorry.

 

It did work - I only had to be a bit more patient to see the result of the added code.

Thanks a whole lot!

 

Maybe you should also run striptags function, but since this function have some issues the best way is to process description is with preg_replace function.

Example:

$dsc = preg_replace('<[^<>]+?', ' ', $dsc);

Now you will get this:
some text
instead of this:
<a href ..> some text

But this will also remove all tags that are presented in text like bold (<b></b>), or italic (<i></i>).