HTML code in Option Value

[simon1066]

ZC v1.5.6c

I'm resurrecting a partially dormant site (from v1.5.5f) and bringing it up to ZC v1.5.6c.

I use HTML code in products_options_values > products_options_values_name such as:

<a href="https://my_affiliate_link" rel="noindex,nofollow" target="_blank">Brand</a>

Way back when, this worked well. Then in some version of ZC this failed and any subsequent edits made to this field in Admin caused the full code to be displayed on page (escaping quotes, slashes etc.) rather than the link text - I worked around this at the time by directly editing the the database.

Now it's time to do it properly. I'm sure I've seen some reference to this somewhere - htmlspecialchars or something.

Could someone point me to the code that causes the above HTML code not to 'work' in products_options_values_name

[simon1066]

Comparing includes/modules/attributes.php for ZC v1.5.6c and ZC v1.5.0 I see the addition of

ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET, TRUE

in the former. Would it be a simple as removing these from my v1.5.6c site - implications?

[lat9]

Er, can you say "Admin sanitization"?

[simon1066]

Thanks to you that was a lot easier than I had envisaged.

TEMPORARILY Disabling Strict Sanitization

I only edit product attributes on my local server so am happy to permanently disable sanitization (remembering not to copy said php file to live in future upgrades)