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Syntax

fetchElement($name, $value, &$node, $control_name)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$name
$value
$control_name

Defined in

libraries/joomla/html/parameter/element/text.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.html.parameter.element.text' );

Source Body

public function fetchElement($name, $value, &$node, $control_name)
{
        $size = ($node->attributes('size') ? 'size="'.$node->attributes('size').'"' : '');
        $class = ($node->attributes('class') ? 'class="'.$node->attributes('class').'"' : 'class="text_area"');

        // Required to avoid a cycle of encoding &
        // html_entity_decode was used in place of htmlspecialchars_decode because
        // htmlspecialchars_decode is not compatible with PHP 4

        $value = htmlspecialchars(html_entity_decode($value, ENT_QUOTES), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

        return '<input type="text" name="'.$control_name.'['.$name.']" id="'.$control_name.$name.'" value="'.$value.'" '.$class.' '.$size.' />';
}

Examples

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