Re: [phplib] Problems with PHP 4.0.4, template.inc, and the modified From: John Mandeville (mandevil <email protected>)
Date: 01/29/01

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:55:36 -0500 (EST), Padraic Renaghan wrote:
>
> * John Mandeville <mandevil <email protected>> [01/29/01 12:40pm]
> > I don't have the original message to include here. The problem was
> > with templates changing text from something like "$50.00" to ".00" due
> > to changes in the Perl-compatible regex engine in PHP 4.0.4.
> >
> > The original poster had tried escaping with, for example, preg_quote().
> > At best, you'll get the backslashes retained in your final html
> > output, and at worst, you'll screw up template.inc if you do this.
> > Instead, change dollar signs to "&#36;" entities. But don't fully
> > entify with htmlentities(), or else you'll lose the braces that
> > template.inc needs.
> >
> > The following diff -c on template.inc has, so far as I've tested it
> > (which isn't much), solved the problem. Your mileage may vary. This
> > change only entifies a dollar sign when followed by a digit. If you
> > want template.inc to de-entify the dollar signs before you actually use
> > the page, add the appropriate ereg_replace line as a new first line to
> > finish(). The original template.inc in the diff is from version 7.2c.
> > My admittedly scanty tests were with PHP 4.0.4p1.
>
> Though this is a good interim fix for your specific application, I think
> we need to figure out the "right" way to do this before applying the
> patch to PHPLIB. The problem that I'll have is that I frequently use
> templates to generate email text, which is not HTML. I send an order
> confirmation that includes the total cost for example, say "$50.00". The
> HTML entities don't work with email since it is not an HTML email.
>
> I still plan on testing the PHP CVS code which supposedly fixes the
> problem, or at least lets escaping work properly. At least that is what
> the close message to my PHP bug report said.
>
> Padraic
>
>
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