convert a string into its html entitles using php htmlentities function
this takes a html string such as the following example and converts it into its html entities.
it will take a character such as < and convert it into < so that the string is not parsed as html and can be embedded into code or a view page.
Update it seems that the browser is taking the < and the other characters and converting them into the html entities again when you inspect them in the browser.
I wonder how to get the encoded or decoded string and add it to a textarea, im sure this used to work.
PHP
$string = "<a href='#i_am_the_link_target'>Im a Link text</a>.";
$string_htmlentities = htmlentities($string);
echo "<h3>The original String</h3>";
echo $string;
echo "<h3>The String after being converted</h3>";
echo $string_htmlentities;
echo "<p>if you want to see the encoded characters you can always add it to a text areas.</p>";
echo "<textarea>$string_htmlentities</textarea>";
echo "<p>you can also decode the entities with the following function<p>";
$string_htmlentities_decode = html_entity_decode($string_htmlentities);
echo $string_htmlentities_decode;
echo "<textarea>$string_htmlentities_decode</textarea>";
echo htmlspecialchars($string);
echo "<textarea>";
echo htmlspecialchars($string);
echo "</textarea>";
echo "<p>actually the one i was looking for here was htmlspecialchars_decode got there in the end!</p>";
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($string);
echo "<textarea>";
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($string);
echo "</textarea>";
echo htmlspecialchars($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');View Statistics
Add Comment
Other Items in php functions
Related Search Terms
Other Categories in Code
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
