ASP Coding Guide

In this code sample we will converting all applicable characters to HTML entities using htmlentities(). Using 'htmlentities' all characters which have HTML character entity equivalents are translated into these entities.


Syntax

string htmlentities ( string string [, int quote_style [, string charset]] )

Example :



$strMessag = "You're my best friend.";

echo htmlentities($strMessage, ENT_COMPAT);

echo htmlentities($strMessage, ENT_QUOTES);

echo htmlentities($strMessage, ENT_NOQUOTES);

?>

Available quote_style constants :
ENT_COMPAT : Will convert double-quotes and leave single-quotes alone.
ENT_QUOTES : Will convert both double and single quotes.
ENT_NOQUOTES : Will leave both double and single quotes unconverted.

Supported charsets :
ISO-8859-1 ISO8859-1 Western European, Latin-1
ISO-8859-15 ISO8859-15 Western European, Latin-9. Adds the Euro sign, French and Finnish letters missing in Latin-1(ISO-8859-1).
UTF-8 ASCII compatible multi-byte 8-bit Unicode.
cp866 ibm866, 866 DOS-specific Cyrillic charset. This charset is supported in 4.3.2.
cp1251 Windows-1251, win-1251, 1251 Windows-specific Cyrillic charset. This charset is supported in 4.3.2.
cp1252 Windows-1252, 1252 Windows specific charset for Western European.
KOI8-R koi8-ru, koi8r Russian. This charset is supported in 4.3.2.
BIG5 950 Traditional Chinese, mainly used in Taiwan.
GB2312 936 Simplified Chinese, national standard character set.
BIG5-HKSCS Big5 with Hong Kong extensions, Traditional Chinese.
Shift_JIS SJIS, 932 Japanese
EUC-JP EUCJP Japanese