excluding characters from the htmlspecialchars function

[basher400]

hi

 

I would like to use the htmlspecialchars but I want to exclude the & character

e.g: I don't want it to change the "&" to "&"

 

is there a way to do ?

I couldn't find an answer here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

[scootstah]

Convert it back afterwards.

$str = 'a string with & in it';

$str = htmlspecialchars($str);

$str = str_replace('&', '&', $str);