note 78509 added to function.htmlentities

There's no sane reason to use htmlentities() instead of htmlspecialchars(). As long as you specify the charset of a page with a Content-Type meta in the head of a page (which you should ALWAYS do in the first place), escaping all characters is completely pointless and will only grow the size of your page. Only the special HTML characters (<, >, &, etc.) need to be escaped, which is exactly what htmlspecialchars() does. ---- Server IP: 216.235.15.211 Probable Submitter: 206.162.167.230 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/78509 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78509/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78509/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78509/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78509/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78509/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78509/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78509 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/78509 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php