Posted by universalbitmapper on 06/25/06 06:05

Rik wrote:
> universalbitmapper wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > $new = htmlspecialchars("<a href=", ENT_QUOTES, 'ISO-8859-15');
> > echo $new;
> >
> > displays:
> >
> > <a href
> >
> > Instead of :
> >
> > &lt; a href
>
> It outputs &lt;a href=, if you view it with a browser it display's <a href,
> instead of making an 'a' element. View your source.
>
> If you want to display you special characters like &lt; in a browser: either
> double yoiu htmlentities/htmlspecialchars (so,
> htmlspecialchars(htmlspecialchars($string))), or
> str_replace('&','&amp;',$string) after you have replaced ther characters.
>
> Grtz,
> --
> Rik Wasmus

Hi Rik,

I have done like you wrote, indeed I see &+lt+; if I select "source" in
IE6.

Many thanks

JiBé

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