Hi all,
I need to convert some text from a database for presentation on screen... as per usual, characters like quotes and ampersands (&) are giving me grief. the obvious answer is to apply htmlspecialchars(), BUT this also converts all < and > into < and > signs, which destroys the html mark-up within the text.
Is there a non-tag equivalent of htmlspecialchars(), or do I need to build one?
You'll have to build one.
If you know what characters are causing trouble, you could just use str_replace on them. Or you could use htmlspecialchars() and then run str_replace to convert < and > back into brackets.
You could also use get_html_translation_table() to get the conversions, remove the < and > conversion elements of the array and then use strtr() to do the conversion.
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