Question

I have the following piece of code.

<?php
    $agentId = "LTH001";
    echo "&&" . $agentId;
?>

The output is &<H001 whereas I expected &&LTH001. I guess there is a conversion issue causing this output. Why do I get the unexpected output?

Answer 1

You should use http://www.php.net/htmlspecialchars in order to avoid HTML converting of undesired strings:

echo htmlspecialchars("&&".$agentId);