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Isadora
Isadora

Reputation: 423

Htmlspecialchars does not work with variable passed

I'm using htmlspecialchars to display Greek letters correctly in my html. For that reason I have:

$array = array('sampleGreekString' => 'Ενδιαφερόμαστε για το φορτίο σας')

When I call the function like this:

htmlspecialchars('Ενδιαφερόμαστε για το φορτίο σας')

it works fine and all letters are shown correctly. But when I call it this way:

htmlspecialchars($array['sampleGreekString']);

on the screen are shown only question marks (?). How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 321

Answers (1)

Peyman.H
Peyman.H

Reputation: 1952

suppose u have array like this:

$array = array('sampleGreekString' => 'Ενδιαφερόμαστε για το φορτίο σας');

then try the code this way: 

function filter(&$value) {
  $value = htmlspecialchars($value, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
}
array_walk_recursive($array, "filter");

The above code applies htmlspecialchars to all the array elements.

Upvotes: 1

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