Re: Htmlentities vs htmlspecialchars

Dave Goodchild wrote: > Hi all. I know htmlspecialchars converts the smallest set of entities > possible to generate valid HTML, and that htmlentities goes much > further, so > what is the difference? Is it not better to use htmlentities in every case, > making htmlspecialchars somewhat redundant, or is there a performance > tradeoff? 1 kind of performance: 'htmlentities' is less chars to type. another kind of performance: 'htmlspecialchars' converts a *smaller* set of entities; this assumes that the size of the set has a measurable impact on the time takento do a conversion - I doubt that given the actual sizes of the respective entity conversion tables that this is the case. okay so that's guess work ;-) personally I always use htmlentities() and be done with it, I had the same 'redundant' feeling some time back. I wonder if anyone can given a solid answer to this? >