Re: [PHP3] htmlentities and the like

Hi! Am 12.11.99, um 15:29 schrob jemand namens Richard Lynch etwa folgendes: RL>I'm not sure you need to reverse it... It probably gets reversed by the RL>browser... RL>Or, if it's going to be displayed in a browser again, just leave it alone. RL>But, if you need it: RL>$text = str_replace('&quot;', '"', $text); Well, yeah, I already know that function. I would use it, if there weren't so many things to convert. I'll describe what I'm trying to do: As I wrote in my previous mail, I programmed a script that opens a template (html)-file. The umlaut, '<', '>','"' etc characters are first converted to &quot; and the like. Then they are display in a textarea. After that, the textarea-value (ie. the html-file) gets posted back to the server. Then the server has to convert everything back to the normal characters and write that stuff to a file. I want to make that work easier. I don't like calling a function several times, if it can be more easily done with one function. It also is pretty ugly: $string = str_replace('&auml;','ä',$string); $string = str_replace('&ouml;','ö',$string); $string = str_replace('&quot;','\"',$string); ...etc...for every single html entity. You don't have to call str_replace() or ereg_replace() to convert " to &quot; or ä to &auml; but htmlentities(), so why should I need to call these functions the other way around? I believe, there would also be a little performance gain if it was done in C. An idea: couldn't it be done using htmlentities? it would only need minor changes - just pass a flag, like htmlentities($string,TO_ASCII) or htmlentities($string,TO_HTML) Would it be possible to do that? Reg., Jonas Jochum -- http://www.jonas-jochum.de | email@jonas-jochum.de I'm signature virus '99. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread.