PHP htmlentities not working even with parameters
I dont know why , this worked for me (htmlentities has to be called twice for me)
$html="<html> <head><head>something like this </html>"
$entities_correction= htmlentities( $html, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
echo htmlentities( $entities_correction, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
output :
<html> <head><head>something like this </html>
I thought I had the same problem as Pjack (msg of Jul 14 at 8:54):
$str = "A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>";
echo htmlentities($str);
gives in the Browser (Firefox in my case) the original string $str (without any translation), while
echo htmlentities(htmlentities($str));
gives:
A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>
(I use PHP/5.4.16 obtained from windows-7 XAMPP).
However, after some more thought it occurred to me that the Browser shows the strings < and > as > and <.
(See the source code in the browser). Second call of htmlentities translates & into & and only then the Browser shows what you expected in the first place.
Your code works for me :-?
In the manual page for htmlentities() we can read:
Return Values
Returns the encoded string.
If the input string contains an invalid code unit sequence within the given encoding an empty string will be returned, unless either the ENT_IGNORE or ENT_SUBSTITUTE flags are set.
My guess is that the input data is not properly encoded as UTF-8 and the function is returning an empty string. (Assuming that the script is not crashing, i.e., code after that part still runs.)