escaping html (pro-question)

[RedDragon]

hi,
i want to escape all html chars such as < > and & with their equivalents eg: &gt; and &lt;

im using this code for it:

$text=htmlspecialchars(get_magic_quotes_gpc()?stripslashes($text):$text);

my problem is that also arabian,chinese and russian letters are escaped to eg: & # 1045 ;

how can i fix that? do i need to modify the html charset or use another html parse function?

[superwormy]

Why not run a bunch of str_replace() 's?

$text = str_replace (">", "&gt;", $text);

[RedDragon]

there is pretty much to replace

[trooper]

Take a look at this link it will give you some guidelines on how to use htmlentities.

HTH

GM

[superwormy]

Then run a lot of str_replace()'s...

Or make an array of things you want to replace:

$replace_array = array ("
">" => "&lt;",
"<" => "&gt;",
"\"" => "&quot;",
);

foreach ($replace_array as $key => $value) {

$text = str_replace ($key, $value, $text);

}