showing non-english text after using htmlentities() !!

[hassank1]

Hii I am using this function to disable html...

 

function cleanText($text,$WrapWidth) //clean post from html + wordwrap + convert \n to <br>
{
$text=htmlentities($text); //disable (html and script code) -> for security reasons
$text=stripslashes($text); //convert (/') => (')
$text=wordwrap($text, $WrapWidth, "\n"); //replace \n by <br> and make a wordwrap
$text=wordwrap($text, $WrapWidth+5, "\n", true); 	 
$text=nl2br($text);
return $text;
}

 

however the non-english text are changed to ex:

 

;وم

فما ...

 

how can I display this text and still disabling the other html tags !!

[marcus]

html entities is going to convert & to &

 

Use strip_tags, or str_replace to replace the monumental tags, < and >

[hassank1]

would explain more plz ... !!

[wildteen88]

If you want to remove all html tags you can just use strip_tags function. htmlentities will convert all characters which have an html entity equivalent will be converted. If you only want to convert only html characters then use htmlspecialchars

[hassank1]

thx ..

however , why the function convert & to &amp ? what's the point of that?

[maexus]

That's how & should be typed in a html document. & will display as & in the browser.