html-encode

What is the easiest way to Html encode in PHP? By encode, do you mean: Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities? htmlspecialchars or htmlentities You can also use strip_tags if you want to remove all HTML tags : strip_tags Note: this will NOT stop all XSS attacks Encode.php <h1>Encode HTML CODE</h1> <form action='htmlencodeoutput.php' method='post'> <textarea rows='30' cols='100'name='inputval'></textarea> <input type='submit'> </form> htmlencodeoutput.php <?php $code=bin2hex($_POST['inputval']); $spilt=chunk_split($code,2,"%"); $totallen=strlen($spilt); $sublen=$totallen-1; $fianlop

For special characters like áéí , I can call htmlentities() : $mycaption = htmlentities($mycaption, ENT_QUOTES); To get the corresponding html entities: áéí How can I reverse this back to áéí ? heximal If you use htmlentities() to encode, you can use html_entity_decode() to reverse the process: html_entity_decode() Convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters. html_entity_decode() is the opposite of htmlentities() in that it converts all HTML entities in the string to their applicable characters. e.g. $myCaption = 'áéí'; //encode $myCaptionEncoded = htmlentities($myCaption, ENT

I have a class library (in C#). I need to encode my data using the HtmlEncode method. This is easy to do from a web application. My question is, how do I use this method from a class library that is being called from a console application? Russ Bradberry Import System.Web Or call the System.Web.HttpUtility which contains it You will need to add the reference to the DLL if it isn't there already string TestString = "This is a <Test String>."; string EncodedString = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(TestString); System.Net.WebUtility class is available starting from .NET 4.0 (You donʼt need

I am using XML to share HTML content. AFAIK, I could embed the HTML either by: Encoding it: I don't know if it is completely safe to use. And I would have to decode it again. Use CDATA sections: I could still have problems if the content contains the closing tag "]]>" and certain hexadecimal characters, I believe. On the other hand, the XML parser would extract the info transparently for me. Which option should I choose? UPDATE: The xml will be created in java and passed as a string to a .net web service, were it will be parsed back. Therefore I need to be able to export the xml as a string

I am creating a RSS feed file for my application in which I want to remove HTML tags, which is done by strip_tags . But strip_tags is not removing HTML special code chars:   & © etc. Please tell me any function which I can use to remove these special code chars from my string. Either decode them using html_entity_decode or remove them using preg_replace : $Content = preg_replace("/&#?[a-z0-9]+;/i","",$Content); (From here ) EDIT: Alternative according to Jacco's comment might be nice to replace the '+' with {2,8} or something. This will limit the chance of replacing entire sentences when an