Certain characters have special significance in HTML, and should be represented by HTML entities if they are to preserve their meanings. This function returns a string with some of these conversions made; the translations made are those most useful for everyday web programming. If you require all HTML character entities to be translated, use htmlentities() instead.
This function is identical to htmlspecialchars() in all ways, except with htmlentities(), all characters which have HTML character entity equivalents are translated into these entities.
If you need all converted, use htmlentities. Else use htmlspecialchars.
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In PHP documentation for htmlspecialchars:
In PHP documentation for htmlentities:
If you need all converted, use
htmlentities
. Else usehtmlspecialchars
.