myunhtmlentities

I got a reorder reminder cron job error that said:
ERROR: Failed to send reminder 61871 sent for order 315956, customer 2326, email bob&helen@talktalk.net

Looking at the reorder reminder table showed me that the email address is retreived from the customer table. There, it is "correctly" stored as bob&helen@talktalk.net. I say "correctly", since JShop generally does store string HTML escaped, which to me is weird - but it's also a fact.

Solution: whenever getting things from tables in JShop, remember that the data is probably HTML escaped. When you need unescaped strings, you can use the myunhtmlentities (from visiondirect/admin/resources/includeBase.php. If you need this outside the admin area, move it to someplace accessible by the non-admin code.