PHP get_html_translation_table() Function

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PHP get_html_translation_table()

The get_html_translation_table() function returns the translation table used by htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() function.

Note: Special characters can be encoded in several ways. E.g. " can be encoded as ", " or &#x22. The get_html_translation_table() function returns the most common encoding.

Example

PHP Compiler

<?php print_r(get_html_translation_table()) ?>

Output

Array ( ["] => " [&] => & [<] => < [>] => > )

Syntax

get_html_translation_table(table, flag, character-set)

Parameter Values

Value	Type	Explanation
table	Optional	Specifies the table to return. Possible Values: HTML_ENTITIES HTML_SPECIALCHARS Default value is HTML_ENTITIES.
flag	Optional	Specifies which quotes the table will contain as well as which document type the table is for. Possible Values: ENT_COMPAT - Table will contain entities for double-quotes, but not for single-quotes. ENT_QUOTES - Table will contain entities for both double and single quotes. ENT_NOQUOTES - Table will neither contain entities for single quotes nor for double quotes. The Default value is ENT_COMPAT.
character-set	Optional	Specifies the character-set to use. Possible Values: ISO-8859-1 - Western European, Latin-1. ISO-8859-5 - Little used cyrillic charset (Latin/Cyrillic). ISO-8859-15 - 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 - DOS-specific Cyrillic charset. cp1251 - Windows-specific Cyrillic charset. cp1252 - Windows specific charset for Western European. KOI8-R - Russian. BIG5 - Traditional Chinese, mainly used in Taiwan. GB2312 - Simplified Chinese, national standard character set. BIG5-HKSCS - Big5 with Hong Kong extensions, Traditional Chinese. Shift_JIS - Japanese EUC-JP - Japanese MacRoman - Charset that was used by Mac OS. The Default value is 'UTF-8' (PHP 5.4.0 and above).