Output the translation table used by the htmlspecialchars function:
<?phpprint_r (get_html_translation_table()); // HTML_SPECIALCHARS is default.?>The get_html_translation_table() function returns the translation table used by the htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() functions.
Tip: Some characters can be encoded in several ways. The get_html_translation_table() function returns the most common encoding.
get_html_translation_table( function, flags, character-set )
| parameter | describe |
|---|---|
| function | Optional. Specifies which translation table to return. Possible values: HTML_SPECIALCHARS - Default. Translate certain characters that require URL encoding so they display correctly on HTML pages. HTML_ENTITIES - Translates all characters that require URL encoding to display correctly on HTML pages. |
| flags | Optional. Specifies what kind of quotes the translation table will contain and what document type the translation table is for. Available quote types: ENT_COMPAT - Default. The translation table contains double-quoted entities but not single-quoted entities. ENT_QUOTES - Translation table contains double quote entities and single quote entities. ENT_NOQUOTES - The translation table does not contain double-quote entities and single-quote entities. Additional flags specifying the document types to which the translation table applies: ENT_HTML401 - Default. Translation table for HTML 4.01. ENT_HTML5 - Translation table for HTML 5. ENT_XML1 - Translation table for XML 1. ENT_XHTML - Translation table for XHTML. |
| character-set | Optional. A string specifying the character set to be used. Allowed values: UTF-8 - Default. ASCII compatible multi-byte 8-bit Unicode ISO-8859-1 - Western Europe ISO-8859-15 - Western Europe (added euro symbol + French and Finnish letters missing from ISO-8859-1) cp866 - DOS-specific Cyrillic character set cp1251 - Windows-specific Cyrillic character set cp1252 - Windows-specific Western European character set KOI8-R - Russian BIG5 - Traditional Chinese, mainly used in Taiwan GB2312 - Simplified Chinese, national standard character set BIG5-HKSCS - Big5 with Hong Kong extension Shift_JIS - Japanese EUC-JP - Japanese MacRoman - Character set used by the Mac operating system Note: In versions prior to PHP 5.4, unrecognized character sets were ignored and replaced by ISO-8859-1. As of PHP 5.4, unrecognized character sets are ignored and replaced by UTF-8. |
| Return value: | Return the translation table in the form of an array, with original characters as key names and entities as key values. |
|---|---|
| PHP version: | 4+ |
| Update log: | In PHP 5, the default value of the character-set parameter changed to UTF-8. In PHP 5.4, additional flags have been added to specify the document types that the translation table applies to: ENT_HTML401, ENT_HTML5, ENT_XML1, and ENT_XHTML. In PHP 5.3.4, the character-set parameter was added. |
Translation table for HTML_SPECIALCHARS:
<?phpprint_r (get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS));?>Displaying character and entity name:
Array( ["] => " [&] => & [<] => < [>] => >)Translation table for HTML_ENTITIES:
<?phpprint_r (get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES));?>Display characters and their corresponding entity names:
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