Trouble with htmlentities

[c_shelswell]

Hi I'm struggling a bit with htmlentities. I've got a text input and a user that wants to add greek symbols such as 'Σ'. After input I add it to the database as

 

htmlentities('Σ');

 

But what i'm getting in the database is: Σ when it should be

 	Σ

 

any ideas anyone?

[c_shelswell]

ok - my bad seems I should have done some research. I need to add in html_entity_decode.

 

Though why it doesn't just add it correctly? Or am i missing something?

[waynewex]

Look at the charset specified inside your head tages in your html/xhtml.

Mine is usually utf-8.

 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

 

So if I'm using htmlentities - I specify the charset I'm using.

 

htmlentities(STRING, QUOTE STYLE, CHARSET)

 

In practice, it's:

 

$string = htmlentities($string,ENT_QUOTES,"utf-8");

 

Don't worry about the ENT_QUOTES part... that just means that you've chosen to change all single and double quotes into their respective html entities.

 

[c_shelswell]

cheers wayne,

 

Though as soon as I add the encoding in i get:  cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()

 

The server i'm on is PHP4 which from what i'm reading is a problem?

 

Cheers