$sanitizer->entities() method

Entity encode a string for output

Wrapper for PHP's htmlentities() function that contains typical ProcessWire usage defaults

The arguments used here are identical to those for PHP's htmlentities function, except that the ProcessWire defaults for encoding quotes and using UTF-8 are already populated.

Example

$test = "ain't <em>nothing</em> perfect but our brokenness";
echo $sanitizer->entities($test);
// result: ain&apos;t &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; perfect but our brokenness

Usage

// basic usage
$string = $sanitizer->entities(string $str);

// usage with all arguments
$string = $sanitizer->entities(string $str, $flags = 3, string $encoding = 'UTF-8', bool $doubleEncode = true);

Arguments

NameType(s)Description
strstring

String to entity encode

flags (optional)int, bool

See PHP htmlentities() function for flags.

encoding (optional)string

Encoding of string (default="UTF-8").

doubleEncode (optional)bool

Allow double encode? (default=true).

Return value

string

Entity encoded string

See Also


$sanitizer methods and properties

API reference based on ProcessWire core version 3.0.236

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