RE: [PHP] Special HTML characters question.

[snip] I have a problem that I'm sure some of you have run into before, therefore I hope you all know of an easy solution. Some of my users are cutting and pasting text from Word into text fields that are being saved into a database then from that database being displayed on a web page. The problem occurs when some special characters are being used. Double quotes, single quotes, and other characters like accents etc have the special html code like &quote; etc replacing the special characters. What methods are being used to combat this issue? Is there a solution out there to run text through some sort of filter before submitting it to the database to look for these special characters and then replacing them? [/snip] Start here http://www.php.net/htmlentities . You can also use any number of REGEX functions for replacing them http://www.php.net/regex