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By default its <TT CLASS="literal" >html</TT > escaped. </P ><DIV CLASS="informaltable" ><A NAME="AEN948" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><THEAD ><TR ><TH WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Parameter Position</TH ><TH WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Type</TH ><TH WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Required</TH ><TH WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Possible Values</TH ><TH WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Default</TH ><TH WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Description</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >1</TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >string</TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >No</TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ><TT CLASS="literal" >html</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >htmlall</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >url</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >urlpathinfo</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >quotes</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >hex</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >hexentity</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >javascript</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >mail</TT > </TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ><TT CLASS="literal" >html</TT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >This is the escape format to use.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >2</TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >string</TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >No</TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ><TT CLASS="literal" >ISO-8859-1</TT >, <TT CLASS="literal" >UTF-8</TT >, and any character set supported by <A HREF="http://php.net/htmlentities" TARGET="_top" > <TT CLASS="varname" >htmlentities()</TT ></A > </TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ><TT CLASS="literal" >ISO-8859-1</TT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="17%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >The character set encoding passed to htmlentities() et. al.</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN994" ></A ><P ><B >Example 5-10. escape</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'articleTitle'</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br /> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"'Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan'"<br /> </span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'EmailAddress'</span><span style="color: #007700">,</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'smarty@example.com'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Where template is: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >{$articleTitle} {$articleTitle|escape} {$articleTitle|escape:'html'} {* escapes & " ' < > *} {$articleTitle|escape:'htmlall'} {* escapes ALL html entities *} {$articleTitle|escape:'url'} {$articleTitle|escape:'quotes'} <a href="mailto:{$EmailAddress|escape:"hex"}">{$EmailAddress|escape:"hexentity"}</a> {$EmailAddress|escape:'mail'} {* this converts to email to text *} {'mail@example.com'|escape:'mail'}</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Will output: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >'Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan' &#039;Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan&#039; &#039;Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan&#039; &#039;Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan&#039; %27Stiff+Opposition+Expected+to+Casketless+Funeral+Plan%27 \'Stiff Opposition Expected to Casketless Funeral Plan\' <a href="mailto:%62%6f%..snip..%65%74">&#x62;&#x6f;&#x62..snip..&#x65;&#x74;</a> smarty [AT] example [DOT] com mail [AT] example [DOT] com</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN1001" ></A ><P ><B >Example 5-11. Other examples</B ></P ><P >PHP functions can be used as modifiers, <A HREF="variable.security.html" > <TT CLASS="varname" >$security</TT ></A > permitting. </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >{* the "rewind" paramater registers the current location *} <a href="{$SCRIPT_NAME}?page=foo&rewind={$smarty.server.REQUEST_URI|urlencode}">click here</a></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >This snippet is useful for emails, but see also <A HREF="language.function.mailto.html" > <TT CLASS="varname" >{mailto}</TT ></A ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >{* email address mangled *} <a href="mailto:{$EmailAddress|escape:'hex'}">{$EmailAddress|escape:'mail'}</a></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also <A HREF="language.escaping.html" >escaping smarty parsing</A >, <A HREF="language.function.mailto.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >{mailto}</TT ></A > and the <A HREF="tips.obfuscating.email.html" >obfuscating email addresses</A > page. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.modifier.default.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.modifier.indent.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >default</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.modifiers.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >indent</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >