March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
21h 29m
English
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Name
htmlspecialchars
Synopsis
string htmlspecialchars(stringstring[, intstyle])
Converts characters in string that have
special meaning in HTML and returns the resulting string. A subset of
all HTML entities covering the most common characters is used to
perform the translation. If supplied,
style determines the manner in which
quotes are translated. The characters translated are:
Ampersand (
&) becomes&Double quotes (
") become"Single quote (
') becomes'
Less than sign (
<) becomes<Greater than sign (
>) becomes>
The possible values for style are:
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Converts double quotes, but not single quotes |
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Does not convert either double quotes or single quotes |
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Converts both single and double quotes |