Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/31/05 19:43

On Mon, October 31, 2005 9:30 am, Dan McCullough wrote:
> I having been looking for some snippet to help me with changing MS
> Word double, quotes, single quotes and other characters to acceptable
> HTML safe characters. The problem comes about when the people using
> the forms paste large articles from Word into the form, I do a normal
> check and add slashes but lately they have been getting lazy and using
> the special characters from Word.

There are several functions at http://php.net/htmlentities in the
User-Contributed notes for this.

Pick the one you like.

PS ALWAYS read the User-Contributed notes of related functions when
looking for this kind of stuff. They're a Gold Mine.

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