How do I remove adding amp; after &?

• Topor777

• January 17, 2020 at 4:10 pm

Hi all. Please help with advice. On the front of the site there is a field with the type “TextArea”, in which users insert their data, including links. If the link address contains the ” & ” symbol, then in the backend part of the site, “amp;” is added to this symbol, and it turns out “& amp;”.
How do I fix this? Here is the form code that is located on the front part:

<?php
acf_form(array(
'fields'	=> array('res'),
'submit_value'	=> 'Send',
'updated_message' => __("", 'acf'),
));?>

• Daniel Buth

• January 17, 2020 at 5:10 pm

The form input is sanitized by wp_kses_normalize_entities( string $string ), see:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_normalize_entities/.

You can deactivate it by using the kses option, see:
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_form/

<?php
acf_form(array(
	'fields'          => array('res'),
	'submit_value'    => 'Send',
	'updated_message' => __("", 'acf'),
	'kses'            => false,
));?>

However, it is never a good idea to not sanitize user input. If you pass up on kses, you should sanitize it some other way that watches out for links and leaves them intact.

• Topor777

• January 17, 2020 at 5:13 pm

thank you very much!