htmlspecialchars

(PHP3 , PHP4 )

htmlspecialchars --  Convert special characters to HTML entities

Description

string htmlspecialchars (string string)

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 these conversions made.

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

At present, the translations that are done are:

Note that this functions does not translate anything beyond what is listed above. For full entity translation, see htmlentities().

See also htmlentities() and nl2br().


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