Convert Special Characters To HTML Entities PHP

In this tutorial we will learn How to Convert Special Characters To HTML Entities in PHP. PHP built-in htmlspecialchars() function is used to convert some special characters to HTML entities.

Table of Contents

• Using htmlspecialchars() Function
• More PHP Tutorials

Using htmlspecialchars() Function

We can simply use htmlspecialchars() Function to convert special characters to HTML Entities.

htmlspecialchars() Function is a built-in PHP function which converts some predefined characters to HTML entities.

Take a look at the code given below.

<?php
$string = "This is <b>HowToCodeSchool.com</b>.";
echo htmlspecialchars($string);
?>

$string variable contains HTML entities which were converted from special characters.

Output

This is <b>HowToCodeSchool.com</b>

Some Special Characters are:

• &
• "
• '
• <
• >

Their HTML Entities are:

• &amp;
• &quot;
• &#039;
• &lt;
• &gt;