[SOLVED] htmlspecialcharacters

[Northern Flame]

I got a script from the PHP Freaks Quick Codes and I was customizing it and on one of the files they included these to things:

htmlspecialcharacters(...);

and

n12br(htmlspecialcharacters(...));

(of course without the "..." i just didnt want to retype everything)

 

what is the difference between the first and second?

[lococobra]

Well, first of all there is no "htmlspecialcharacters(...);" It's htmlspecialchars

 

htmlspecialchars() Converts any character that has specific significance in HTML to a text safe equivalent... I haven't really tested it, but it looks like it's similar to htmlentities, so I'd assume it does stuff like turns < into <

 

nl2br() adds a line break (< br>) before each newline (\n) in a string. This is particularly useful for things such as textareas, where a user may enter a bunch of text using newlines to space everything out... then php represents those newlines a "\n", which in html... means nothing. So in order to display their text in html, you have to add line breaks before each newline

 

So draw your own conclusions... the two functions are primarily used for processing information from forms, just use whatever you need to.

 

[Northern Flame]

Well, first of all there is no "htmlspecialcharacters(...);" It's htmlspecialchars

 

LOL sorry about that, in my head I pronounce the entire thing so thats why I typed it in that way 

 

THANKS FOR THE HELP