On 13 September 2011 23:01, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/13/2011 01:38 PM, Ron Piggott wrote: > > > > Is there a way to only change accented characters and not HTML (Example: > <p> </p> <a href =””> </a> ) > > > > The syntax > > > > echo htmlentities( > stripslashes(mysql_result($whats_new_result,0,"message")) ) . "\r\n"; > > > > is doing everything (as I expect). I store breaking news within the > database as HTML formatted text. I am trying to see if a work around is > available? Do I need to do a variety of search / replace to convert the > noted characters above back after htmlentities ? > > > > (I am just starting to get use to accented letters.) > > > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > > > Ron > > > > The Verse of the Day > > “Encouragement from God’s Word” > > http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info > > > > If it is meant to be HTML then why run htmlentities(), especially before > storing it in the DB? > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Perhaps something like this might help you $content = htmlspecialchars_decode(htmlentities($content,ENT_NOQUOTES,"ISO-8859-1"),ENT_NOQUOTES); or perhaps $table_all = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES,ENT_NOQUOTES,"ISO-8859-1"); $table_html = get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS,ENT_NOQUOTES); $table_nonhtml = array_diff_key($table_all,$table_html); $content1 = strtr($content1,$table_nonhtml); $content2 = strtr($content2,$table_nonhtml); if using it multiple times. -- "It is not possible to simultaneously understand and appreciate the Intel architecture" --Ben Scott
