Automatically replace "&" with "&" [duplicate]

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replace & for &

For a wordpress page to be v开发者_开发知识库alidated, all & should be replaced with & I know java but i do not know PHP. So how do i do this in wordpress?

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Use htmlspecialchars before printing:

$text = htmlspecialchars($text)

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You can escape ampersands & as well as quotes and brackets using the htmlspecialchars() function.

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Like the others said, htmlspecialchars() works. Also check out htmlentities() which has a broader range of characters to replace for further scrubbing of the string.