Re: HTMLSpecialchars

From: Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:48:14 +0000
Subject: Re: HTMLSpecialchars
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On Thursday 19 April 2001 07:11, you wrote: > > I'm having a problem with HTMLspecialchars and nl2br interfearing > // Convert < to &lt;, etc > $output = htmlentities($content); Little note on the side: htmlentities () is usually better then htmlspecialchars (). (1) It has a shorter name *g* and (2) it really takes care of *all* HTML specialities (e.g. umlauts) -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) /* you are not expected to understand this */ - from the UNIX V6 kernel source

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