Changing Quotes Into HTML (" to ")

[Anon]

Hi - hopefully someone here will have a suggestion for me. I have a form which posts data, and I'd like to have PHP automatically convert any submitted quotation marks (") into HTML (&quot😉. I don't want to simply use addslashes() and stripslashes(), I actually want the conversion to take place. Essentially I need a trimmed down version of the htmlspecialchars() function that only converts quotes and nothing else (so that other characters are left alone). From what I've read, to replace one thing with another thing I need to do something like

strreplace("onething", "anotherthing", "$text");

The problem is, if I use

strreplace(""", """, $text");

I'll get a parse error. Any suggestions?

[Anon]

Sorry - I'm new to this forum. My first paragraph should have read that I want to go from quotation marks (") to HTML (&quot😉. And my strreplace that gives the parse error should read:

strreplace(""", """, $text);

Thanks!

[Anon]

Ack! Nevermind. The solution is:

str_replace("\"", """, $text);

I could have sworn that I tried using the backslash there and received an error before. I also typed "strreplace" in my post instead of "str_replace", but it was correct in my code. Oh well. I'm back up and running now!

[Anon]

Try the included function htmlentities() :
It does all the appropriate conversion to HTML (accents, quotes, etc....)

[Anon]

Thanks! I tried out htmlentities() and it did the job perfectly without converting anything that I didn't want converted. I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction and I'll use htmlentities() from now on!

[Anon]

Don't forget HTMLSpecialChars().