[PHP] htmlentities -- can it skip tags

[John W. Holmes]

Justin French wrote:

> 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 &lt; and &gt; 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 &lt; and &gt; 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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[Justin French]

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 12:58 PM, John W. Holmes wrote:

> Justin French wrote:
>

>> 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 &lt; and &gt; 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 &lt; and &gt; back into brackets.

Which is what I just did as a 'patch' :)

> 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.

I like that idea a LOT.

Thanks John!


Justin

[Justin French]

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 12:58 PM, John W. Holmes wrote:

> Justin French wrote:
>

>> 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 &lt; and &gt; 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 &lt; and &gt; back into brackets.

Which is what I just did as a 'patch' :)

> 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.

I like that idea a LOT.

Thanks John!


Justin