[TYPO3-english] HTML in _LOCAL_LANG

[Christian Hennecke]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:52:05 UTC, Søren Malling 
<soren.malling at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have extended sr_feuser_register with a new field (checkbox,
> acceptance of rules), and have added a text next to the checkbox, with
> the plugin.tx_srfeuserregister_pi1._LOCAL_LANG setting. Now, i would
> like to add a link to that text, pointing to the page containing the
> above mentioned rules, but I can't seem to add HTML to the _LOCAL_LANG
> setting.
> 
> I've tried to use <![CDATA[ ]] aroung the _LOCAL_LANG string, with the
> result being that   <![CDATA[ was printed in the Frontend. Making a
> reference to a TEXT object, where i created a typolink, returned TEXT
> to the frontend.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea, how to solve this problem?

I had the same problem and found no good solution. In the end, I just 
added the HTML to the _LOCAL_LANG setting and removed one 
htmlspecialchars() from the extension code. This probably does increase 
the risk of XSS attacks.
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