how to use str_replace and htmlentities

[andz]

how do i use htmlentities in str_replace

 

$val = 'their body';

 

str_replace('body', 'bodies', $val);

[jackpf]

str_replace('body', 'bodies', htmlentities($val));

[andz]

what im trying to achieve is that

 

$val = '<script>alert("test")</script>';

 

str_replace('', '', $val);

 

how am i going to apply htmlentities on str_replace to convert the <>" into htmlentities

[thebadbad]

Simply running htmlentities($val) will convert the characters in $val and return the edited string.

[andz]

@thebadbad:

 

i tried applying that solution but there's an affected script and wont work... but when i tried applying str_replace it's working...

 

so i thought that i can apply htmlentities inside str_replace but i don't know how to do it.

 

 

[thebadbad]

but there's an affected script and wont work

 

Huh? Do you mean that you only want to convert certain characters, like < and >? Using str_replace():

 

<?php
$val = str_replace('<', '<', $val);
$val = str_replace('>', '>', $val);
?>

If that's not what you want, please explain your problem better.

[andz]

im trying to convert all of the <>"'/\ and other html entity

[thebadbad]

Well, htmlentities() converts all applicable characters. What went wrong when using htmlentities()? If you've got a set of characters you want to convert, just run them through str_replace():

 

<?php
$replace = array(
'<' => '<',
'>' => '>',
'"' => '"'
//...
);
$str = str_replace(array_keys($replace), $replace, $str);
?>

[jackpf]

I don't understand, why can't you just use htmlentities()?

[andz]

not using it because i'm just using a ready made script and when using htmlentities() it cause a problem on xajax.

 

but when i applied str_replace() the problem didn't occured.

 

just finding a solution to convert all of the html entity into their respective value and put it in str_replace() just like THEBADBAD solution.

[jackpf]

Wouldn't it be simpler to find out what's breaking your ajax?