Question

Hey guys, I’m trying to use htmlentities() to convert the characters in a textarea to html codes. The code I have right now looks like this:

 var_dump($colors);
 $colors= htmlentities($colors, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', false);
 var_dump($colors);

which returns this:

    string(31) "• Red 
    • Green
    • Blue<br />"
    string(46) "&bull; Red 
    &bull; Green
    &bull; Blue&lt;br /&gt;"

I assumed passing false to the double_encode parameter would prevent <br /> from being converted to <br />.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The double_encode parameter prevents encoding existing html entities (e.g. •). <br /> is not an html entity, so it gets encoded.