I and lately I'm seeing h() and e() functions in PHP. I have googled them, but they are so short that results don't give any idea of what they are. I got results like exponential or math related functions. For example:
<td><?php echo h($room['Room']['message']) ?></td>
Does anyone have an idea? or maybe they are not called functions? (I think I read about that very long ago, but I can remember its real name)
ADDED:
Thanks, for the replies. I am using CakePHP and also found an e() example:
<?php e($time->niceShort($question['Question'] ['created'])) ?>
If they were escaping somehow strings I think it would make sense, since I always see them right next the "echo"
I still don't know what they are ;(
Answer
As several readers have said, these are CakePHP-specific short-cuts. You can find them in the API docs at: here (for CakePHP 2.x)
I think I read that some of these are going to be removed in 1.3, personally I never used e() as typing echo really doesn't take that much longer :)
edit: e() is deprecated in 1.3 and no longer available in 2.0 see here