<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >htmlentities</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="get_meta_tags" HREF="function.get-meta-tags.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="htmlspecialchars" HREF="function.htmlspecialchars.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.get-meta-tags.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.htmlspecialchars.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.htmlentities" >htmlentities</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN25813" ></A >htmlentities -- Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN25816" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >string htmlentities</CODE >(string string);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > This function is identical to <B CLASS="function" >Htmlspecialchars()</B > in all ways, except that all characters which have HTML entity equivalents are translated into these entities. </P ><P > At present, the ISO-8859-1 character set is used. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.htmlspecialchars.html" ><B CLASS="function" >htmlspecialchars()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.nl2br.html" ><B CLASS="function" >nl2br()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.get-meta-tags.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.htmlspecialchars.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >get_meta_tags</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >htmlspecialchars</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >