Re: FN-FORUM: Storing tab spacings in MySQL and displaying them on web pages

date posted 12th October 2006 21:14

> Just to teach you some more good practice HTML, you should never use a £
> sign in HTML it is not strictly valid and in some browser / font face
> combinations may display wrongly. Instead you should replace them with
> the entity "£", there is a handy function that does this for you
> in PHP (html_entities I think).

£ is a perfectly valid character in HTML, so long as the
character-encoding of the page supports it. I use UTF-8 for all my pages,
and have lots of £ signs, accented characters, etc.

The characters you do need to enocde are ", , and &, which always need
to be ", <, >, and & respectively. This conversion is done
by the htmlspecialchars() function in PHP.

Cheers!

Anthony
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