htmlspecialchars

I a using the the HTML encode special characters in Sublime text to convert all the special character into their HTML code. I have a lot of accented characters in different parts of the file. So, it would be great if I could select all the special character and then use the plugin to convert all at once! Is there a regex that helps select all special characters only? Mikko Ohtamaa Yes. Sublime text supports regular expression and you can select all non-ASCII (code point > 128) characters. This regex find should be enough for you: [^\x00-\x7F] Just search and replace. But if you are doing

I'm developing a dependent select script using jQuery, PHP and JSON as the response. Everything goes well except for using special characters like French ones (é , è , à...) if I pre-encode them like (é , è , à) (Here I'm using spaces between the ampersand and the rest of the word to prevent auto encoding in my question) it works but when rendered with jquery the characters are not converted to what they should look like (é...), instead they are shown as is (é) If I write them like (é) and don't pre-encode them the full value in this array entry is not shown. What should I do here? Thanks.

Is converting special characters to HTML entities in form validation and database query using PHP PDO using htmlspecialchars() function really necessary? For example, I have a website with simple login system more or less like: $username = (string) htmlspecialchars($_POST['user']); $password = (string) htmlspecialchars($_POST['pass']); $query = $dbh->prepare("select id where username = ? and password = ?") $query->execute($username, $password); Note that I also use type casting besides the function in question.. So, is it necessary? Or I can safely use $username = $_POST['user']; ? Rob Apodaca

this may seem like a simple problem but I couldn't find it in the archives. how does one reverse the effects of htmlspecialchars? I tried something like this: $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES); $trans_tbl = array_flip ($trans_tbl); $html = strtr ($html, $trans_tbl); but it didn't work. is there a simple way to do this? Use htmlspecialchars_decode() <?php $str = "<p>this -> "</p>\n"; echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str); // note that here the quotes aren't converted echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str, ENT_NOQUOTES); ?> Reference - PHP Official Doc You need htmlspecialchars

What are the special reserved character entities in HTML and in XML? The information that i have says: HTML: & (replace with & ) < (replace with < ) > (replace with > ) " (replace with " ) ' (replace with &apos; ) XML: < (replace with < ) > (replace with > ) & (replace with & ) ' (replace with &apos; ) " (replace with " ) But i cannot find documentation on either of these. The W3C does mention, in Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) , certain predefined entity references. But it says that these entities are predefined (in the same way that © is predefined); not that they must

I've seen this asked several times, but not with a good resolution. I have the following string: $string = "<p>Résumé</p>"; I want to print or echo the string, but the output will return <p>R�sum�</p> . So I try htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities() which outputs <p>Résumé<p> and the browser renders <p>Résumé<p> . I want it, obviously, to render this: Résumé And I'm using UTF-8: header("Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"); What am I missing here? Why does echo and print output a � for any special character? To clarify, the string is actually an entire html file stored in a database. The