htmlspecialchars is a PHP function that convert special characters to HTML entities.
htmlspecialchars is a PHP function that convert special characters to HTML entities.
Famous question: htmlentities() vs. htmlspecialchars()
Questions tagged [htmlspecialchars]
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CakePHP Validator not working form entity
I want to perform a htmlspecialchars with no quotes in my entity save.
Code:
$post['body'] = htmlentities($this->request->getData('body'), ENT_NOQUOTES);
Validator doesn't work on save.
How to make it work?
Thanks
Klaas Waas
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Cannot replace some html characters with str_replace()
From the database I receive the following text:
<div onclick="alert('código…
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How and where exactly is htmlspecialchars() or {{}} to be used?
When is the htmlspecialchars() to be used exactly?
I know that laravel {{}} is automatically escaping, but I have a case where I don't know how to implement {{}} - see "view" example, so I would go instead for htmlspecialchars() . As far as I know…
cyberspacelogin
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HTML special characters not displayed properly
I have two PHP files and when I fetch data from database on these pages and display them using print_r both the pages display content in different way.
Actually I have some HTML special characters in my content with I have escaped using…
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Remove HTML special charcters
How do i remove “ , ” , ° like special characters from a string in PHP
Actually i need to read the contents from a text file and need to remove the html special characters except the alphabets and digits from it
raki
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Escaping and HTML special characters
I am escaping data prior to DB insertion using: $entry = mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $value); and then using htmlspecialchars() on the output before displaying, however in my output I appear to have slashes within the string, as in It\'s not…
Ryan
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Undefined index when calling htmlspecialchars
I'm getting the following error:
Notice: Undefined index: test
With reference to this line:
$token = htmlspecialchars($_GET["test"]);
Do I need to define test somewhere even though I'm trying to read it from a URL?
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I had actually looked…
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How to store input text value or text area value with & symbol and special characters?
I have already checked with htmlentities, htmlspecialchars, mysql_real_escape_string but nothing helped me.
I just want to save "Hello my name is john & my native is chennai"
when i tried to save this, only "Hello my name is john " is saved.
what…
J Ramesh Fernandez
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Want to use htmlspecialchars , but Hypelinks must be clicakble in view - PHP , HTML
Hi I am implementing a comment system . When showing my comments and articles in my view again , i want to use htmlspecialchars but i want my hypelinks can be clicked .
Example Comment :
My favourite web site is < www.facebook.com >.
Then i the…
Kanishka Panamaldeniya
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htmlentities not giving wanted result
I have the following function below how ever the result is still giving me string(13) "hell'o"o"
and not the special chars
Function:
private function makeHTMLSpecial($input)
{
return htmlentities(trim($input), ENT_QUOTES);
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htmlspecialchars ignores some characters
I use htmlspecialchars() to escape some text, but for characters like ™ it outputs nothing. I know this is because it isn't valid UTF-8 but how can I let htmlspecialchars() ignore that, store it in a database and then display the characters on a…
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Replace Quotes from xml in php
I want to replace some quotes from an xml doc and use a php function for that.
It works fine with all chars, besides this one:
I tried thes unicode chars but did not suceed:
'“', '”', '„', '″'
In my optinion the first one…
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How to convert html special characters into their codes using php
Actually I want to convert all the special characters into their codes as I've shown below:
! !
" "
# #
$ $
% %
& &
' '
( (
) )
* *
+ +
, ,…
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htmlspecialchars() throwing an error
I have installed elgg and none of the links work. In the error log, I see a slew of these error messages:
htmlspecialchars() expects at most 3 parameters, 4 given
steve landiss
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Delete special char \
How can i delete a html-special char \ from a string.
$string = 'This is \ a string with \ special characters \';
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