str_replace()

[markjia]

I need to be able to convert special characters to be HTML compliant. I don't want to use htmlspecialchars() because the string contains tags (eg. <b>,<i>), so i'm trying to use str_replace() with arrays...but i can't get it to work.

$String = str_replace(array("&quot;", "&#039;", "&amp;", "<br />"), array("\"", "'", "&", "\n"), $String);

What am I doing wrong?

If I were to 4 seperate calls to str_replace() with strings instead of arrays, would the code be faster or slower?

[markjia]

I didn't realize the HTML tags I entered would screw up the page, so here it is again without the tags:

I need to be able to convert special characters to be HTML compliant. I don't want to use htmlspecialchars() because the string contains tags like "bold" and "italic", so i'm trying to use str_replace() with arrays...but i can't get it to work.

$String = str_replace(array(""", "'", "&", "<br />"), array("\"", "'", "&", "\n"), $String);

What am I doing wrong?

If I were to 4 seperate calls to str_replace() with strings instead of arrays, would the code be faster or slower?

[markjia]

Nevermind...I realized I got the order of the array mixed up...it works now 😉