html-entities

We've got some fraction information stored in the database, e.g. ¾ ½ Short of doing a search and replace, are there any inbuilt PHP functions that will automatically convert these to proper html entities? You can use the htmlentities() function . This will replace all special characters with their HTML equivalent. It should do the job your require. Good question btw, +1. htmlentities . But you probably don't need to. Serve your page in an encoding that includes them (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1) and you can include those as literal, unescaped characters. The answer is already given: use htmlentities() .

I'm really stumped on this one. I want to output a list and have the tag file take care of commas, singular versus plural, etc. but when I display the list it completely ignores whitespace so everythingrunstogetherlikethis. I tried using the HTML entities "thinsp", "ensp" and "emsp" (I can't use "nbsp", these have to be breaking), but they're all hideously wide on IE except thinsp which is way too skinny on everything else. Edit: won't work. The output from the tag has no spaces at all. Although any content in the JSP has normal spacing. Obviously I could just put everything in the JSP but

Disclaimer This is not a question about whether we should be escaping for database input. This is strictly looking at the technical differences between the three functions in the title. There is this question discussing the difference between htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() . But, it doesn't really discuss filter_var() and the information I found on Google was more along the lines of "Make sure you escape user input before it is echo'd!" My questions are: Why are htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() commonly used over filter_var() ? Is there some performance hit from using filter_var()

Yeah, so, I want to store translated choices for my model, but Django disagrees with me on this one. Version of Django is 1.3 and the model and choices look something like this: from django.db import models from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ RATE_CHOICES = ( ('', _('Choose service rate')), ('5cpm_EUR', mark_safe(string_concat('€ 0,05 ', _('per minute')))), ('1cpm_EUR', mark_safe(string_concat('€ 0,01 ', _('per minute')))), ) class Product(models.Model): service_rate = models.CharField(_('service rate'), max_length=10, blank

When I set a value of a text node with node.nodeValue="string with &#xxxx; sort of characters" ampersand gets escaped. Is there an easy way to do this? You need to use Javascript escapes for the Unicode characters: node.nodeValue="string with \uxxxx sort of characters" From http://code.google.com/p/jslibs/wiki/JavascriptTips : (converts both entity references and numeric entities) const entityToCode = { __proto__: null, apos:0x0027,quot:0x0022,amp:0x0026,lt:0x003C,gt:0x003E,nbsp:0x00A0,iexcl:0x00A1,cent:0x00A2,pound:0x00A3, curren:0x00A4,yen:0x00A5,brvbar:0x00A6,sect:0x00A7,uml:0x00A8,copy

Is their a method to encode/decode HTML and URL (in Xcode, using Objective-C)? [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:<#(NSString *)path#> encoding:<#(NSStringEncoding)enc#> error:<#(NSError **)error#>] This doesn't seem to work how i expected. I thought it will convert special characters like "<" to equivalent HTML entities i.e. "<" in this case. Here's a reference to the w3school link related to this topic (general): HTML URL Encoding Reference HTML Entities Reference Thanking in anticipation. Returns a representation of the receiver using a given encoding to determine the percent escapes