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Difference between htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars()

htmlspecialchars only takes care of , single quote ‘, double quote ” and ampersand. htmlentities translates all occurrences of character
sequences that have different meaning in HTML.

htmlspecialchars

htmlspecialchars

- It Convert special characters to HTML entities

Syntax:

string htmlspecialchars ( string string [, int quote_style [, string charset]])

htmlentities

htmlentities

- It Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities

Syntax:

string htmlentities ( string string [, int quote_style [, string charset]])

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