Chunks with HTML entities/ html encode - Going crazy....

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m0dx1t Reply #1, 16 years, 2 months ago

I have a Chunk with special characters that I am passing to a snippet. Is there a way to apply HTML entities before I send it off to my snippet? The Chunk will display fine by itself, but when I pass it to my Snippet, then it stops at the first special character.

[[mysnippet? &param=`{{myChunk}}`]]

Have also tried :htmlent using PHx, it doesn’t work either.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

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mrhaw Reply #2, 16 years, 2 months ago

Snippet calls in EVO are sensitive! You can’t use = ? & etc.
Revo is another story http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,46062.msg272326.html#msg272326

What are you trying to do? There is most likely another way doing it.

FeedX for instance have you to rewrite urls with |xq| for a ?

if (isset($url)) $params['url'] = str_replace(array('|xq|','|xe|','|xa|'), array('?','=','&'), $url);
else return '';
    // URL pointing to the feed to be displayed (stop snippet execution if not specified)
    // The following URL characters need to be converted when passing them through the snippet
    //  ?  =>  |xq|
    //  =  =>  |xe|
    //  &  =>  |xa|

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m0dx1t Reply #3, 16 years, 2 months ago

Found out last night that you can’t pass special characters into a snippet.

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3772.msg129335.html

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=36928.0

Why didn’t the developers escape tags or htmlcode all chunk content?

For now, I’m just flagging every special character I have, a then use a preg_replace in my Snippet to give them their appropriate special char values. Similar to FeedX.