In Registry 4.x we adopted the use of filter_var() for output escaping. In PE, we will instead use the much less verbose h() CakePHP convenience function.

The PHP Sanitize filters page notes:
"FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING ... (Deprecated as of PHP 8.1.0, use htmlspecialchars() instead.)" (See: https://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.sanitize.php)

h() is a shorthand for htmlspecialchars().