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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()

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html special symbols is displayed as characters

I've been trying to set content of a text input dynamically using JS, the problem I encountered is I can not have the browser render the special symbols rather than chars so for example document.getElementById("textField").value = "nbsp"; Instead…
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Removing Special character when importing data from excel

I'm importing data from excel to data table. It's working fine. But in some fields, data imported with unknown character '�'. But excel doesn't have such character. Here is my code. I have tried in many ways. This is my final code. $new_prod_desc…
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RSS Feed & Special Characters

I have been working for hours on trying to get a rss feed. The problem is with special characters. I have data listed as a list on the website, but I want a rss feed also. The title has "&" which are written as $amp;. If I use htmlspecialchars it…
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htmlentities and htmlspecialchars refuse to process string

Since the last update to PHP5 5.4.0-3 on my Debian box I noticed that some pages have empty fields where text from the MySQL database should be. I played around a bit and found the problem.
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convert html characters back to text in Flash - AS3

I need to generate an editable xml file to supply content to a flash website. I am generating my file with a html form, and htmlspecialchars e.g.: $currentItem = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($currentItem)); This is to prevent xml entries…
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Why is there no $encoding parameter in htmlspecialchars_decode()?

If we check out the documentation of the htmlspecialchars() function in PHP, we see that it has an $encoding parameter to specify the encoding of the input string. Now, conversely, I expect the opposite htmlspecialchars_decode() function to also…
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What is a function that will allow output with HTML and avoid XSS attacks

I am looking for a way or function that will allow me to display data from my mySQL database. The users are allowed to post articles, that I use mysql_real_escape_string to avoid SQL injections before inserting their post in the DB. For my testing…
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htmlspecialchars not working as expected

I am probably using it wrong, the problem is this: I have php code that gets echoed to the page like so: " . htmlspecialchars($array['text']) . "" ?> That variable gets echoed from the databse in an html structure like this…
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php XML DOM translates special chars to &#xYY;

I send this with AJAX POST:
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    Insert single quote or double quote to the database with codeigntier

    When I load the data into the input box: if the data contain single quote, it will strip the later part of the string, because of the conflict of the symbol So I…
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    What is difference between FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS and htmlspecialchars?

    I have a textarea which will be available to users as comment box so any sort of inputs are acceptable but that should be accepted only as text and not code. Basically I want to protect my database. I don't want to strip tags or such thing, I just…
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    php urlencode and htmlspecialchars a variable inside started function within html

    I have the function: function after_char($char, $var) { $get = explode($char, $var); $text= $get[1]; echo $text; } I have the html link: Potwierdź…
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    Display HTML special characters stored in JavaScript string

    I need to dynamically append a text to a
    with JavaScript. This text is retrieved from a database and it also contains special character as ü or '. Now i'm using the createTextNode() but the HTML special characters like &xxxx; aren't "resolved"…
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    How to use substring on non english characters?

    i have small site where i display search results of posts titles, some titles are up to 255 characters long and while displaying those in html table , the table's row breaks i.e. doesnt shows correct so i use substr php function to trim the title…
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    replace all but certain html tags with htmlspecialchars() in PHP?

    I would like to process my user input to allow only certain html tags, and replace the other ones by their html entities, as well as replace non-tag-characters. For example, if I only wanted to allow the and the tag, then allow_only("This…
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