A htmlescape() function??

Anon

OK, so I'm looking through the latest version of the PHP manual, and I see this:

[snip]
Example 31-2. Data to be edited by the user

<?php
echo "<textarea name=mydata>\n";
echo htmlescape($data)."\n";
echo "</textarea>";
?>
[/snip]

(this is in "/FAQ/PHP & HTML")

Now, I looked at the function tables and searched the manual, and couldn't find this function. I also tried it out with PHP 4.1.0, and the function isn't defined. Anyone know what's uup witht his?

--Jason

Anon

does it print html code without formating, so you can see the code not the product the code would show?

or does it scrape out html, much like strip_tags() does?

Anon

That's the problem... it's not there at all. I would assume that it escapes ", ', <, and >, but it's just not there at all and I'm wondering if someone knows what's going on.

--Jason

Anon

Try htmlspecialchars()

Anon

I have the same problem:

I defined a "<input type='text' name='test' value='".htmlspecialchars($test)."'>" and when I test this, and get the form again (because I didn't fill in one of the fields for example, the every ' and " is now \' and \"

So, htmlspecialchars probably doesn't replace htmlescape...

Anyone has an idea???

Regards,
Dirk.

Anon

same problem here,

On every submit (if form reloaded), then content changes, if there is something like

hello "world"
it change to hello \"world\"

Someone knows how avoid this?