note 51452 added to function.htmlentities

Bob Dole, Sure, your pattern is smaller and will work, but it's not technically valid. An HTML tag cannot contain any character as your pattern states -- only a small subset of the possible characters -- your pattern would allow such tags as: <~!%*#%> or <&&&&&&> and would cause the function to leave the ampersands un-encoded in the second example above, causing an XHTML document to break. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51452 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51452&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51452&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51452&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51452&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51452&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51452&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php