What we need to do to fix this is really quite simple, find the string that stores our bookmark title, and replace the predefined characters with HTML entities.  While looking for the best method to do this using PHP, I found a function that I never knew about before.  There’s actually a nice PHP function to do this: htmlspecialchars()

Certain characters have special significance in HTML, and should be represented by HTML entities if they are to preserve their meanings. This function returns a string with some of these conversions made; the translations made are those most useful for everyday web programming. If you require all HTML character entities to be translated, use htmlentities() instead.

This function is useful in preventing user-supplied text from containing HTML markup, such as in a message board or guest book application.

Perfect, this is what we’re going to use.  So let’s find that string now…

Open delicious.php and go to line 74:

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foreach ( $bookmarks->items as $bookmark ) {
$msg = $bookmark['title'];
if($encode_utf8) utf8_encode($msg);
$link = $bookmark['link'];
$desc = $bookmark['description'];

So we’re going to take line 74 and change it to this:

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foreach ( $bookmarks->items as $bookmark ) {
$msg = htmlspecialchars($bookmark['title']);
if($encode_utf8) utf8_encode($msg);
$link = $bookmark['link'];
$desc = $bookmark['description'];

Quite simple, now we’re back on the right track