Question

I have a foreach loop that spits out all of the “read mail” in a user’s inbox:

        foreach ($tmpArray as $array) {
            if ($array['message_parent_id'] == 0) {
                $convo = $this->model->getConvoArray($array['message_id']);
                $array['message_datetime'] = $convo[sizeof($convo) - 1]['message_datetime'];
                $lastMessage = $this->model->getLastReply($array['message_id']);
                if ($_SESSION['username'] == $lastMessage['message_sender']) {
                    $messageBody = "<b>&lArr;</b> " . $lastMessage['message_body'];
                } else {
                    $messageBody = $lastMessage['message_body'];
                }
                $array['message_body'] = $messageBody;
            }
            array_push($readMail, $array);
            //echo PrettyDate::convert($array['message_datetime']);
            //echo "<br />";
        }

However, when $lastMessage[‘message_body’] == “<(^_^<) Kirby!” I get $array[‘message_body’] == “by!”. But when $lastMessage[‘message_body’] == “<(^_ Kirby!” it is stored into $array[‘message_body’] correctly as “<(^_ Kirby!”. Not entirely sure what’s going on. All other cases I’ve tried work fine.

It works when I take out around &lArr. I’m guessing it’s something to do with that.

Answer 1

Wrap $lastMessage[‘message_body’] in htmlentities() and it should solve your problem.

$lastMessage['message_body'] = htmlentities($lastMessage['message_body']);