Re: htmlentities() with utf8

On 5/4/06, Marten Lehmann <lehmann@cnm.de> wrote:

Hello, I want to use htmlentities() with UTF-8, which I can set with the third parameter. But to use the third parameter, I have to provide the second parameter. Currently the default for the second parameter is ENT_COMPAT. But as this might change, I don't want to call htmlentities with htmlentities($text, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8"); all the time. Is there another way? Regards Marten -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php You could create a function that could handle various output/escaping

functions. This way you minimize any changes to the output mechanism you use throughout your old site. function formatText($text=NULL) { if (is_null($text) )

       return $text;

$text = htmlentities($text, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8"); // you could even do other stuff if you wanted like $text = nl2br($text); return $text; }