From fbac8b4553942db4be52e872d9fd68717e5006e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kenjis <kenji@codeigniter.jp>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:51:44 +0900
Subject: add html_escape() function to escape HTML.

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 user_guide/changelog.html                | 1 +
 user_guide/general/common_functions.html | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'user_guide')

diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index 91312e46b..c22bebda6 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ Change Log
 		<ul>
 			<li class="reactor">Callback validation rules can now accept parameters like any other validation rule.</li>
 			<li class="reactor">Ability to log certain error types, not all under a threshold.</li>
+			<li class="reactor">Added html_escape() to the <a href="general/common_functions.html">Common functions<a> to escape HTML output for preventing XSS easliy.</li>
 		</ul>
 	</li>
 	<li>Helpers
diff --git a/user_guide/general/common_functions.html b/user_guide/general/common_functions.html
index 65457759d..7cff6321c 100644
--- a/user_guide/general/common_functions.html
+++ b/user_guide/general/common_functions.html
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ else<br />
 <p>This function prevents inserting null characters between ascii characters, like Java\0script.</p>
 
 
+<h2>html_escape(<var>$mixed</var>)</h2>
+<p>This function provides short cut for htmlspecialchars() function. It accepts string and array. To prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS), it is very useful.</p>
 
 </div>
 
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