Class Phalcon\Escaper

implements Phalcon\EscaperInterface

Source on GitHub

Escapes different kinds of text securing them. By using this component you may prevent XSS attacks.

This component only works with UTF-8. The PREG extension needs to be compiled with UTF-8 support.

<?php

$escaper = new \Phalcon\Escaper();

$escaped = $escaper->escapeCss("font-family: <Verdana>");

echo $escaped; // font\2D family\3A \20 \3C Verdana\3E

Methods

public setEncoding (mixed $encoding)

Sets the encoding to be used by the escaper

<?php

$escaper->setEncoding("utf-8");

public getEncoding ()

Returns the internal encoding used by the escaper

public setHtmlQuoteType (mixed $quoteType)

Sets the HTML quoting type for htmlspecialchars

<?php

$escaper->setHtmlQuoteType(ENT_XHTML);

public setDoubleEncode (mixed $doubleEncode)

Sets the double_encode to be used by the escaper

<?php

$escaper->setDoubleEncode(false);

final public detectEncoding (mixed $str)

Detect the character encoding of a string to be handled by an encoder Special-handling for chr(172) and chr(128) to chr(159) which fail to be detected by mb_detect_encoding()

final public normalizeEncoding (mixed $str)

Utility to normalize a string’s encoding to UTF-32.

public escapeHtml (mixed $text)

Escapes a HTML string. Internally uses htmlspecialchars

public escapeHtmlAttr (mixed $attribute)

Escapes a HTML attribute string

public escapeCss (mixed $css)

Escape CSS strings by replacing non-alphanumeric chars by their hexadecimal escaped representation

public escapeJs (mixed $js)

Escape javascript strings by replacing non-alphanumeric chars by their hexadecimal escaped representation

public escapeUrl (mixed $url)

Escapes a URL. Internally uses rawurlencode