Re: htmlentities()

[Casey <heavyccasey@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is doing that ;)

If you look at the source, you will see the expected output.



On Nov 17, 2007, at 4:41 AM, Ronald Wiplinger <ronald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I tried to understand htmlentities by putting this code into a  
> test.php:
>
> <?php
> if(!$page) {
> ?>
> <H3>Test of evil input</H3>
>
> <form method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF?>">
>
> <INPUT type="text" name="field1" size="100" maxlength="100">
> <INPUT type="hidden" name="page" value="1">
> <INPUT type="submit" name="submit" value="Check it!">
> </form>
>
> <?php
> }
> else
> {
> echo "field1=$field1<br>";
> $field2=htmlentities($field1,ENT_QUOTES,UTF-8);
> echo "field2=$field2<p>";
> echo htmlentities($field1,ENT_QUOTES,UTF-8);
>
> echo "<p>";
> $str = "A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>";
>
> // Outputs: A 'quote' is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
> echo htmlentities($str);
> echo "<br>";
> // Outputs: A &#039;quote&#039; is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
> echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
>
> }
> ?>
>
>
>
> The output on the screen is:
>
> field1=*Greater input and lower input*
> field2=<b>Greater input and lower input</b>
>
> <b>Greater input and lower input</b>
>
> A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>
> A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>
>
>
> I expected that it would give me in the second line:
> field2=&lt;b&gt;Greater input and lower input&lt;/b&gt;
>
> and the lower two lines I expected as:
>
> A 'quote' is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
> A &#039;quote&#039; is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
>
>
> What do I miss understand here?
>
> bye
>
> Ronald
>
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