escape

escape is used to encode or escape a variable to html, url, single quotes, hex, hexentity, javascript and mail. By default its html.

Parameter Position Type Required Possible Values Default Description

       1            string       No             `html`, `htmlall`, `url`, `urlpathinfo`, `quotes`, `hex`, `hexentity`, `javascript`, `mail`           `html`   This is the escape format to use.
       2            string       No      `ISO-8859-1`, `UTF-8`, and any character set supported by [`htmlentities()`](&url.php-manual;htmlentities)   `UTF-8`  The character set encoding passed to htmlentities() et. al.
       3            boolean      No                                                        FALSE                                                       TRUE    Double encode entites from &amp; to &amp;amp; (applys to `html` and `htmlall` only)


<?php

$smarty->assign('articleTitle',
                "'Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan'"
                );
$smarty->assign('EmailAddress','smarty@example.com');

?>

These are example escape template lines followed by the output

{$articleTitle}
'Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan'

{$articleTitle|escape}
&#039;Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan&#039;

{$articleTitle|escape:'html'}    {* escapes  & " ' < > *}
&#039;Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan&#039;

{$articleTitle|escape:'htmlall'} {* escapes ALL html entities *}
&#039;Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan&#039;

<a href="?title={$articleTitle|escape:'url'}">click here</a>
<a
href="?title=%27Stiff%20Opposition%20Expected%20to%20Casketless%20Funeral%20Plan%27">click here</a>

{$articleTitle|escape:'quotes'}
\'Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan\'

<a href="mailto:{$EmailAddress|escape:"hex"}">{$EmailAddress|escape:"hexentity"}</a>
{$EmailAddress|escape:'mail'}    {* this converts to email to text *}
<a href="mailto:%62%6f%..snip..%65%74">&#x62;&#x6f;&#x62..snip..&#x65;&#x74;</a>

{'mail@example.com'|escape:'mail'}
smarty [AT] example [DOT] com

   


{* the "rewind" parameter registers the current location *}
<a href="$my_path?page=foo&rewind=$my_uri|urlencode}">click here</a>

This snippet is useful for emails, but see also {mailto}

{* email address mangled *}
<a href="mailto:{$EmailAddress|escape:'hex'}">{$EmailAddress|escape:'mail'}</a>

See also escaping smarty parsing, {mailto} and the obfuscating email addresses page.

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