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I am new to Expression Engine and want to make certain that I am programming correctly. I have a plugin which returns some text into a tag. If the text contains ... {site_name} ... then the screen will display the name of the site instead of {site_name} as actual text (which is what I want it to do).

Is there an ‘official’ way around this. (I realise that it is unlikely anyone would enter this but with all the different tags it is always a possibility that someone could enter something that matches one of them).

The function is given below (simplified for this post):

public function userstext()
{
    $query = "SELECT utext FROM textfield WHERE user_id=" . $_SESSION['user_id'];    
    $results = $this->EE->db->query($query);    
    $utext = $results->row('utext');
    return htmlentities($utext);
}

Which is called by…

Comments: {exp:memberslounge:userstext}

The calling template is not embedded into another template.

If you use a standard textarea field you can wrap code with [ code ] tag and it will output as code, eg

[code]a p tag[ /code ]...