Fixes #4972 decode special chars before encoding for friendly titles

diff --git a/engine/lib/output.php b/engine/lib/output.php
index bff0bf6e93f882113b258ae01f454a3fde1c3fa3..9295f21731c6a02a3887dfd5708984c0148d986a 100644 (file)
--- a/engine/lib/output.php
+++ b/engine/lib/output.php
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ function elgg_get_friendly_title($title) {
 
        // handle some special cases
        $title = str_replace('&', 'and', $title);
+       // quotes and angle brackets stored in the database as html encoded
+       $title = htmlspecialchars_decode($title);
 
        $title = ElggTranslit::urlize($title);