esc_html() escapes a string so that it is not parsed as HTML. Characters like < are converted to <, for example. This will look the same to the reader, but it means that if the value being output is <script> then it won’t be interpreted by the browser as an actual script tag. Use this … Read more
I think I found it. Problem (bug): http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18322 Solution: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/stripslashes_deep Note: As suggested by @Alexandar O’Mara, you might want to reconsider overwriting the superglobals like this. If it’s appropriate for your situation, for example, you might just “strip locally” using an alternative like $post = array_map(‘stripslashes_deep’, $_POST); Also see @quickshiftin’s excellent answer.
You can either use a double backslash each time or use the @ symbol
When your XML contains &amp;, this will result in the text &. When you use that in HTML, that will be rendered as &.
Single quotation marks won’t do in that case. You have to add quotation marks around each path and also enclose the whole command in quotation marks:
\r is a carriage return character; it tells your terminal emulator to move the cursor at the start of the line. The cursor is the position where the next characters will be rendered. So, printing a \r allows to override the current line of the terminal emulator. Tom Zych figured why the output of your … Read more
Since you’re using jQuery, you can just set the element’s text property:
You need to escape the “\” in the file path.
The MySQL documentation you cite actually says a little bit more than you mention. It also says, A “’” inside a string quoted with “’” may be written as “””. (Also, you linked to the MySQL 5.0 version of Table 8.1. Special Character Escape Sequences, and the current version is 5.6 — but the current Table 8.1. Special Character … Read more
Escaping a string means to reduce ambiguity in quotes (and other characters) used in that string. For instance, when you’re defining a string, you typically surround it in either double quotes or single quotes: But what if my string had double quotes within it? Now I have ambiguity – the interpreter doesn’t know where my … Read more