note 90806 added to function.htmlentities

I have a strange problem and not sure where to list it. But I guess the best location is under "htmlentities"... I have 2 pages. One first page, I am taking some HTML input from the user with the help of FCKEditor. The input contains HTML code, something similar to this: <p>Enter your content in this box. You can also copy-paste directly from MS Word.</p><p><img height="293" alt="" width="676" src="Identify%20personalities%20small.JPG" /></p><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="200" border="1"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana">Heading 1</span></strong></td><td><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana">Heading 2</span></strong></td></tr><tr><td>Cell 1</td><td>Cell 2</td><td>Cell 3</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Tahoma"><strong><span style="background-color: #ccffff">Shaded row</span></strong></span></p> I am passing above input as a parameter to a URL and then reading this parameter in my second page: echo "Original: ".$_GET['message']."<br><br>"; $originalBody = htmlentities($_GET['message'], ENT_QUOTES); echo "1st conversion: ".$originalBody."<br><br>"; $emailBody = ''; $emailBody = substr($originalBody, 1, strpos($originalBody,");','','scrollbars=")-1); echo "2nd conversion: ".$emailBody; However, the output suddenly gets stripped off at the # in the "<span style="background-color: #ccffff">" statement. I have also tried putting the # at the beginning and have found that the output is nothing! I really don't know why the output is being stripped of at the #... I have tried many combinations but still am unable to find a solution. Please help urgently - email would be appreciated. For more clarifications, please email me. Thanks! ---- Server IP: 59.162.86.8 Probable Submitter: 59.160.13.22 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/90806 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90806/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90806/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90806/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90806/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90806/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90806/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90806 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/90806 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php