how to escape string created by a TV's text area

Hi All,

I have a page at http://gti.websitewelcome.com/~bartlett/index.php?id=40
when the user clicks on the thumbs on the side it switches the big image and the caption text that holds the person’s bio info.
In the manager I made a new document for each staff person. In each document there are tvs fo the thumb image, and for the full sized image and a tv text area where I can enter their bio info.
I have separate chunk that reads:


This all works unless I forget to escape out dangerous characters in the [+facebio+].

how do I escape characters with the use of the escape function

so i /the client won’t have to worry about a quotation mark left in the paragraph?

I am not very php savy, but I saw this in the documenttation:

The function:
function escape($s){
return mysql_escape_string($s);
} To use
$string = $modx->db->escape($string); Example
$string = "This is Joe’s Page";
$string = $modx->db->escape($string);

how do I implement it?

I would make a a PHx Snippet

Snippet name - phx:escape
Snippet code -


Then have change your placeholder to:
[+facebio:escape+]

Thanks for the intro to PHx. It works, although I had to use:

where [+facebio+] is the placeholder for a text area that my client will fill in.

I really appreciate your help!

-Noah

PHx is a great little productivity tool. I use it all the time.