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Description

This function is deprecated as of WordPress 2.8.0. Please use esc_html instead.

Converts a number of special characters into their HTML entities.

Differs from htmlspecialchars as existing HTML entities will not be encoded. Specifically changes: & to &#038;, < to &lt; and > to &gt;.

$quotes can be set to 'single' to encode ' to &#039;, 'double' to encode " to &quot;, or '1' to do both. Default is 0 where no quotes are encoded.

Usage

<code style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php wp_specialchars</span><span style="color: #007700">( </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$text</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$quotes </span><span style="color: #007700">) </span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></code>

Parameters

$text

(string) (required) The text which is to be encoded.

Default: None

$quotes

(mixed) (optional) Converts single quotes if set to 'single', double if set to 'double' or both if otherwise set.

Default: 0

Return Values

(string) 

The encoded text with HTML entities.

Examples

Notes

• htmlspecialchars (noted in the description) is a PHP built-in function.

Change Log

Since: 1.2.2

Source File

wp_specialchars() is located in wp-includes/formatting.php.

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