Title: Submitting
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Submitting

 *  Resolved [gmcinnes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmcinnes/)
 * (@gmcinnes)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submitting/)
 * Using the salesforce soap api method, users submitting forms that have things
   that should be escaped encounter errors. Specifically, submitting something like:
 *     ```
       This & this
       ```
   
 * causes the Soap api to fail with:
 *     ```
       PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught SoapFault exception: [soapenv:Client] The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.
       ```
   
 * My solution was to add a patch to call htmlentities on each form entry line.
 * Patch included below
 *     ```
       1300c1300
       <             			$merge_vars[$var_tag] = htmlentities($entry[$field_id]);
       ---
       >             			$merge_vars[$var_tag] = $entry[$field_id];
       1305c1305
       <             				$merge_vars[$var_tag][] = htmlentities($value);
       ---
       >             				$merge_vars[$var_tag][] = $value;
       1311c1311
       ```
   
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-salesforce/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-salesforce/)

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 *  Thread Starter [gmcinnes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmcinnes/)
 * (@gmcinnes)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submitting/#post-3153416)
 * Oops. That last patch was bad. Replace **htmlentities** call to **htmlspecialchars**
 *  Plugin Contributor [Zack Katz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katzwebdesign/)
 * (@katzwebdesign)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submitting/#post-3153476)
 * Updated in 2.0.2; thanks for the heads up!

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 * Last reply from: [Zack Katz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katzwebdesign/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submitting/#post-3153476)
 * Status: resolved