htmlspecialchars is dropping characters
htmlspecialchars, php
Solution
It works, but you expect something else.
The output is interpreted by your browser as HTML. You can get the plain output by setting the content type to plain or using a command line.
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
var_dump(htmlspecialchars("<a href='test'>Test</a>", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
echo htmlspecialchars("<a href='test'>Test</a>", ENT_XHTML, 'UTF-8');
Problem
I'm trying to use `htmlspecialchars` but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm using OSX 10.9.1 and PHP 5.4.17. I write: ``` var_dump(htmlspecialchars("<a href='test'>Test</a>", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')); echo htmlspecialchars("<a href='test'>Test</a>", ENT_XHTML, 'UTF-8'); ``` and get: ``` string '<a href='test'>Test</a>' (length=45) <a href='test'>Test</a ``` Any ideas?