"<" turn to "&amp;lt;" which turns to "&amp;amp;lt;"

[WitherBones]

I made it so you could use html in certain custom proile fields but the problem is that anything to make a tag (for instance the "<" and ">" symbols) turn into their ampersand version, and placing the ampersand version the in the first place just renders a longer ampersand code.

I need to fix this because there's a REASON I'm trying to use html there.

I've followed the advice given on this site's knowledge base, and this is where it put me. Anyone know how to rectify this?

[frostschutz]

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I made it so you could use html in certain custom proile fields

How did you make it so?

Is there a setting, did you make a plugin, or what? If it's a plugin, you either htmlspecialchars() one time too many or (if MyBB does that) you need to do the reverse unhtmlspecialchars()...

[WitherBones]

I'm trying to find the .doc on here where I found how to do it but it basically said to add something to your php in inc>functions_post.php

add:

		$post['fid2'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid2']);

above:

		eval("\$post['user_details'] = \"".$templates->get("postbit_author_user")."\";");

so what I get is:

		$post['fid2'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid2']);
		$post['fid12'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid12']);
		$post['fid13'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid13']);
		$post['fid14'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid14']);
		$post['fid15'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid15']);
		$post['fid16'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid16']);
		$post['fid19'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid19']);
		$post['fid20'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid20']);
		$post['fid21'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid21']);
		$post['fid22'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid22']);
		$post['fid23'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid23']);
		$post['fid17'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid17']);
		$post['fid24'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($post['fid24']);
		eval("\$post['user_details'] = \"".$templates->get("postbit_author_user")."\";");

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Link to the instruction at the bottom: [link]

[frostschutz]

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htmlspecialchars is what turns < into &lt; and & into &amp; that's what it does, escape HTML. Says so on the page you linked too.

[WitherBones]

so how do I make it so it DOES use the html? That was the original question. Cause without any edits at all, if just shows it like a code would.

[frostschutz]

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Remove the htmlspecialchars() you posted above.

If that is not enough (i.e. < shows up as < instead of being interpreted as HTML) you will have to use htmlspecialchars_decode() instead. Or find the location of the htmlspecialchars() that does escape the < in the first place and remove that.

[WitherBones]

that worked great c: thank you