PHP - Function htmlentities

Syntax

string htmlentities ( string $string [, int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 
   [, string $encoding = ini_get("default_charset") [, bool $double_encode = true ]]] )

Definition and Usage

It is used to convert all applicable characters to Html entities

Return Values

It returns the encoded string.

Parameters

Example

Try out the following example

<?php
   $str = "PHP Function htmlentities";
   
   echo htmlentities($str);
   echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
?>

This will produce following result − −

PHP Function htmlentitiesPHP Function htmlentities