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Reverse htmlspecialchars or something
I have a project that gets from mysql the data that i search.
Until 10 minutes ago, the results could not display me correctly the Greek characters from mysql.
The search system searches the title of the item which contains English and Greek characters.
I solve this problem with this :
I use notepad for any encoding i do between ansi, unicode and utf8.
I wrote into notepad the title in English and for the Greek letters i wrote them in HTML encoded characters and i saved it as ANSI.
On phpmyadmin I uploaded the file choosing utf8 for Character set of the file and ANSI for sql compatibility.
i searched for that English word i wrote in the title and displayed to me the result WITH GREEK LETTERS correctly.
This is the only way to display Greek letters. I tried everything.
The problem is :
When i searched using that Greek letters that i wrote in the title the result showed me nothing. Then i searched again using the HTML encoded characters i used for that title and i got the result with Greek letters!
Having in mind that with HTML encoded characters the system found me the result, I guess there must be a line that it will convert the Greek characters to HTML encoded characters before it gives me the results.
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Originally Posted by Anoole
because it didnt give the correct result!
PHP Code:
<?php
$str = "A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>";
// Outputs: A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>
echo htmlentities($str);
// Outputs: A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
?>
this code does not work for me.
It's working perfectly fine so stop complaining.
When you echo "A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>" you expect to see the word "bold" in bold, right? Because of the <b>.
Yet somehow after using htmlentities it's not bold.
So... it's magic?
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Ok thank you for that. I have another question.
I use Greek letters as I said. When I write Greek letters and click save they are converted to Html chars. Is this will still work ?
and what you suggest me to use. htmlentities or htmlspecialchars ?
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