Re: Re: php with htmlspecialchars function

Well Lisa, that is exactly the way htmlspecialchars is supposed to work. Here you could also display - Test - without using any function at all, simply echo "<a href='test'>Test</a>"; and this should work well. NetEmp On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 13:07, Lisa Nguyen <lisa.nguyen@jpl.nasa.gov> > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I use one of your example to test the htmlspecialchars : > > > > <?php > > $new = htmlspecialchars("<a href='test'>Test</a>", > > ENT_QUOTES); > > echo $new; // &lt;a href=&#039;test&#039;&gt;Test&lt;/a&gt; > > ?> > > > > On my browse, it display like below > > <a href='test'>Test</a> > > > > Instead: > > Test > > > > Please help me how display on browse only "Test", not like view source. > > First, this isn't a support channel. Please view > http://php.net/support for a brief list of available support > methods. > The list you want is PHP General (CC'd on this email, and you can > subscribe at http://php.net/mailinglists ). > > Second, you're using htmlspecialchars(), which is converting the < > and > to &lt; and &gt; respectively, which will cause the browser to > display it as if it was source (though viewing the source of that > would show you the entities). > > Instead, check out strip_tags(), which is likely what you want: > > http://php.net/strip_tags > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Network Infrastructure Manager > http://www.php.net/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >