Sanitizer to match TinyMCE encoding

[thomas]

Hi, I want to regex-replace terms with are stored in a simple text filed within a TinyMCE textarea value. Now I found that TinyMCE seems to encode entities differently than $sanitizer->entities() does. German "Umlaute" öäüÜÖÄ are encoded, but $sanitizer encodes quotes while TinyMCE doesn't. Is there a way to match the two encodings for reliable regex-replaces?

Thanks

$text = preg_replace("/(^|\s|>)".wire("sanitizer")->entities($member->title)."(\s|,|\.)/",'${1}<a href="'.$member->url.'">'.$member->title.'</a>${2}',$text);

^^ This successfully replaces names with umlauts like "Günter" but fails on people with nicknames like Jake "The Snake" 😉 

 

[BillH]

Take a look at the flags for $sanitizer->entities(), which is essentially a wrapper for PHP's htmlentities().

You could also consider PHP's htmlspecialchars().