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Tag: escaping

How to display html tag with css using esc_html?

I am editing the woocommerce orders.php template and ran into a problem. The template shows to user the orders he has placed. There are now several variables that I think need to be coded for security, such as $date_created or $view_order which contains the order link. So I’m trying to add esc_html to these and other variables but when I

Can I make php automatically escape HTML chars when using ?

I am using unescaped data for example some string ” <>> ‘ blah. This causes trouble when I do this: Which results in: Is there a way to tell php to call htmlspecialchars on everything before printing it to the html document using <?= ?> so I don’t have to call it manually every time? Answer No, this is not

Escaping data – stripslashes, strip_tags

Why do a lot of people use both these functions on a string? I see a lot of stripslashes(strip_tags($field)); (or the other way around) Isn’t strip_tags enough to filter any xss stuff and such things? Answer Escaping data has nothing to do with strip_tags or stripslashes. These functions filter certain characters out of a string while “escaping” encodes certain characters

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