# htmlentities

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

htmlentities — Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities

### Description

string htmlentities ( string `$string` [, int `$quote_style` [, string `$charset` [, bool `$double_encode` ]]] )

This function is identical to htmlspecialchars() in all ways, except with htmlentities(), all characters which have HTML character entity equivalents are translated into these entities.

If you're wanting to decode instead (the reverse) you can use html_entity_decode().

### Parameters

`string`

  The input string.

`quote_style`

  Like htmlspecialchars(), the optional second `quote_style` parameter lets you define what will be done with 'single' and "double" quotes. It takes on one of three constants with the default being `ENT_COMPAT`:

  Available `quote_style` constants
  Constant Name | Description
  --- | ---
  `ENT_COMPAT` | Will convert double-quotes and leave single-quotes alone.
  `ENT_QUOTES` | Will convert both double and single quotes.
  `ENT_NOQUOTES` | Will leave both double and single quotes unconverted.

`charset`

  Like htmlspecialchars(), it takes an optional third argument `charset` which defines character set used in conversion. Presently, the ISO-8859-1 character set is used as the default.

  Following character sets are supported in PHP 4.3.0 and later.

  Supported charsets
  Charset | Aliases | Description
  --- | --- | ---
  ISO-8859-1 | ISO8859-1 | Western European, Latin-1
  ISO-8859-15 | ISO8859-15 | Western European, Latin-9. Adds the Euro sign, French and Finnish letters missing in Latin-1(ISO-8859-1).
  UTF-8 |  | ASCII compatible multi-byte 8-bit Unicode.
  cp866 | ibm866, 866 | DOS-specific Cyrillic charset. This charset is supported in 4.3.2.
  cp1251 | Windows-1251, win-1251, 1251 | Windows-specific Cyrillic charset. This charset is supported in 4.3.2.
  cp1252 | Windows-1252, 1252 | Windows specific charset for Western European.
  KOI8-R | koi8-ru, koi8r | Russian. This charset is supported in 4.3.2.
  BIG5 | 950 | Traditional Chinese, mainly used in Taiwan.
  GB2312 | 936 | Simplified Chinese, national standard character set.
  BIG5-HKSCS |  | Big5 with Hong Kong extensions, Traditional Chinese.
  Shift_JIS | SJIS, 932 | Japanese
  EUC-JP | EUCJP | Japanese

  > Note: Any other character sets are not recognized and ISO-8859-1 will be used instead.

`double_encode`

  When `double_encode` is turned off PHP will not encode existing html entities. The default is to convert everything.

### Return Values

Returns the encoded string.

### ChangeLog

Version | Description
--- | ---
5.2.3 | The `double_encode` parameter was added.
4.1.0 | The `charset` parameter was added.
4.0.3 | The `quote_style` parameter was added.

### Examples

Example#1 A htmlentities() example

`<?php
$str = "A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>";
// Outputs: A 'quote' is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
echo htmlentities($str);
// Outputs: A &#039;quote&#039; is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
?>`

### See Also

- html_entity_decode()
- get_html_translation_table()
- htmlspecialchars()
- nl2br()
- urlencode()