Which php function converts some special characters into character entities

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Example

Convert some characters to HTML entities:

$str = 'Go to w3schools.com';
echo htmlentities($str);
?>

The HTML output of the code above will be (View Source):

<a href="https://www.w3schools.com">Go to w3schools.com</a>

The browser output of the code above will be:

Go to w3schools.com

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Definition and Usage

The htmlentities() function converts characters to HTML entities.

Tip: To convert HTML entities back to characters, use the html_entity_decode() function.

Tip: Use the get_html_translation_table() function to return the translation table used by htmlentities().

Syntax

htmlentities(string,flags,character-set,double_encode)

Parameter Values

Technical Details

More Examples

Example

Convert some characters to HTML entities:

$str = "Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'";
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_COMPAT); // Will only convert double quotes
echo "
";
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES); // Converts double and single quotes
echo "
";
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_NOQUOTES); // Does not convert any quotes
?>

The HTML output of the code above will be (View Source):

Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'

Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'

Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'

The browser output of the code above will be:

Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'

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Example

Convert some characters to HTML entities using the Western European character-set:

$str = "My name is Øyvind Åsane. I'm Norwegian.";
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"); // Will only convert double quotes (not single quotes), and uses the character-set Western European
?>

The HTML output of the code above will be (View Source):

My name is Øyvind Åsane. I'm Norwegian.

The browser output of the code above will be:

My name is Øyvind Åsane. I'm Norwegian.

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