esapiEncode

Calling the various encodeFor functions: encodeForHTML, etc.

esapiEncode(encodeFor,string) → returns string

This function requires Lucee 4.5 and up.  Not supported on Adobe ColdFusion, etc.
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See Also:   esapiDecode

Argument Reference

encodeFor string
Required

Encode for what, valid values are:
- css: for output inside Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- dn: for output in LDAP Distinguished Names
- html: for output inside HTML
- html_attr: for output inside HTML Attributes
- javascript: for output inside JavaScript
- ldap: for output in LDAP queries
- url: for output in URL
- vbscript: for output inside vbscript
- xml: for output inside XML
- xml_attr: for output inside XML Attributes
- xpath: for output in XPath.

string string
Required

String to encode.

Compatibility

Lucee:

DEPRECATED since version 5 Warning: esapiEncode is deprecated, use encodeForHTML or any of the many other encodefor functions instead!

Examples
Sample code invoking the esapiEncode function

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