[EventCalendar] ec3_get_events() not translating ampersands into character entities

[ejm]

Thank you for your reply, P; but unfortunately, the result with using

htmlentities(html_entity_decode($calendar_days[$day_id]->get_titles()))

is:

&amp

very  similar to what happens with
wp_specialchars($calendar_days[$day_id]->get_titles())

-ejm

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:27:16 +0200, "Dr. Peter Troxler"
<peter.troxler at gmx.net> wrote:

>have you tried this
>
>htmlentities(html_entity_decode($calendar_days[$day_id]->get_titles());
>
>this essentially converts all html (that might eventually be sitting  
>there) to normal characters and converts them back to valid html
>
>/ pt
>
>On 10-okt-2007, at 18:44, ejm wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your reply, JD;
>>
>>> Find
>>> $calendar_days[$day_id]->get_titles()
>>>
>>> Replace it with
>>> wp_specialchars($calendar_days[$day_id]->get_titles())
>>
>> Alas, I thought I had mentioned that I have already tried this (it was
>> actually the first thing I tried).  All that happens is that it
>> translates any ampersand that is there in the title spec to produce:
>>
>> &#038;amp
>>
>> instead of the other incorrect version that is there now:
>>
>> &amp
>>
>> Rats. Any other ideas??
>>
>> -ejm
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:43:13 -0400, "JD Puglisi" wrote:
>>> OK...one more for you to try. Let's filter the title call in the  
>>> calendar.
>>>
>>> In template-functions.php, (around line 234
>>> Find
>>> $calendar_days[$day_id]->get_titles()
>>>
>>> Replace it with
>>> wp_specialchars($calendar_days[$day_id]->get_titles())
>>>
>>> ------------------------
>>> I have now added your suggested fix. The page loads without visible
>>> error messages but alas, the same validation errors persist. Here is
>>> just one of the error messages:
>>>
>>> ---validator.w3.org---
>>> Line 704, Column 197: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter.
>>>
>>
>>
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