http://atutor.ca/atutor/mantis/view.php?id=4533

added the follow:
/**
 * Convert all '&' to '&' from the input
 * @param   string  any string input, mainly URLs.
 * @return  input with & replaced to '&'
 */
convert_amp($input);

diff --git a/docs/include/vitals.inc.php b/docs/include/vitals.inc.php
index 50035f4..7dec804 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/include/vitals.inc.php
+++ b/docs/include/vitals.inc.php
@@ -1370,6 +1370,17 @@ function htmlentities_utf8($str, $use_nl2br=true){
        return $return;
 }
 
+
+/**
+ * Convert all '&' to '&' from the input
+ * @param   string  any string input, mainly URLs.
+ * @return  input with & replaced to '&'
+ */
+function convert_amp($input){
+    $input = str_replace('&', '&', $input); //convert everything to '&' first
+    return str_replace('&', '&', $input);
+}
+
 /**
  * Check if json_encode/json_decode exists, if not, use the json service library.
  * NOTE:  json_encode(), json_decode() are NOT available piror to php 5.2