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htmlspecialchars question.


njdubois

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Hello friends!  I have to be missing something, and I hope you can point it out!

$output = htmlspecialchars("isn't it nice & clean");
echo $output;

outputs:

isn't it nice & clean

 

I inspect element in chrome and I see:

isn't it nice & clean

 

Shouldn't it be:

isn't it nice & clean

 

??

 

Confused!

 

Thanks

Nick

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But & is, and it wasn't showing in inspect elements.  I finally found a google search hit that stated to "view source"  and there was the &.

 

I added ENT_QUOTES so the code looks like:

$output = htmlspecialchars("isn't it nice & clean", ENT_QUOTES);
echo $output;

 

and now I view source instead of inspect element and I get:

isn't it nice & clean

 

I had seen many posts to "htmlspecialchars not working" and they all said if you inspect element you will see.  Yet inspect element didn't work.  Did something change?

 

Either way, foolish of me to trust inspect element.

 

Thanks for the reply!

 

Nick

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Inspect element has nothing to do with PHP. It is a feature of the web browser. To see the actual output from your PHP script you need to right click > view source

 

Inspect element is most likely prettifying the HTML. It is not a sign htmlentities is not working.

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