PHP get_html_translation_table() Function

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# PHP get_html_translation_table() Function

PHP String Reference

## Example

Print the translation table used by the htmlspecialchars function:

<?php
print_r (get_html_translation_table()); // HTML_SPECIALCHARS is default.
?>
Run example »

## Definition and Usage

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

Tip: Some characters can be encoded several ways. The get_html_translation_table() function returns the most common encoding.

## Syntax

get_html_translation_table(function,flags,character-set)

Parameter | Description
--- | ---

function

Optional. Specifies which translation table to return.

Possible values:

- HTML_SPECIALCHARS - Default. Translates some characters that need URL-encoding to be shown properly on a HTML page
- HTML_ENTITIES - Translates all characters that need URL-encoding to be shown properly on a HTML page

flags

Optional. Specifies which quotes the table will contain and which document type the table is for.

The available quote styles are:

- ENT_COMPAT - Default. Table contains entities for double quotes, not single quotes
- ENT_QUOTES - Table contains entities for double and single quotes
- ENT_NOQUOTES - Table will not contain entities for double and single quotes

Additional flags for specifying which doctype the table is for:

- ENT_HTML401 - Default. Table for HTML 4.01
- ENT_HTML5 - Table for HTML 5
- ENT_XML1 - Table for XML 1
- ENT_XHTML - Table for XHTML

character-set

Optional. A string that specifies which character-set to use.

Allowed values are:

- UTF-8 - Default. ASCII compatible multi-byte 8-bit Unicode
- ISO-8859-1 - Western European
- ISO-8859-15 - Western European (adds the Euro sign + French and Finnish letters missing in ISO-8859-1)
- 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
- Shift_JIS - Japanese
- EUC-JP - Japanese
- MacRoman - Character-set that was used by Mac OS

Note: Unrecognized character-sets will be ignored and replaced by ISO-8859-1 in versions prior to PHP 5.4. As of PHP 5.4, it will be ignored an replaced by UTF-8.

## Technical Details

Return Value: | Returns the translation table as an array, with the original characters as keys and entities as values
PHP Version: | 4+
Changelog: | The default value for the character-set parameter was changed to UTF-8 in PHP 5 The additional flags for specifying which doctype the table is for; ENT_HTML401, ENT_HTML5, ENT_XML1 and ENT_XHTML were added in PHP 5.4 The character-set parameter was added in PHP 5.3.4

## More Examples

## Example

Table for HTML_SPECIALCHARS:

<?php
print_r (get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS));
?>

Displaying character and entity name:

Array
(
["] => &quot;
[&] => &amp;
[<] => &lt;
[>] => &gt;
)

## Example 2

Table for HTML_ENTITIES:

<?php
print_r (get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES));
?>

Displaying character and entity name:

Array
(
["] => &quot;
[&] => &amp;
[<] => &lt;
[>] => &gt;
[ ] => &nbsp;
[¡] => &iexcl;
[¢] => &cent;
[£] => &pound;
[¤] => &curren;
[¥] => &yen;
[¦] => &brvbar;
[§] => &sect;
[¨] => &uml;
[©] => &copy;
[ª] => &ordf;
[«] => &laquo;
[¬] => &not;
[] => &shy;
[®] => &reg;
[¯] => &macr;
[°] => &deg;
[±] => &plusmn;
[²] => &sup2;
[³] => &sup3;
[´] => &acute;
[µ] => &micro;
[¶] => &para;
[·] => &middot;
[¸] => &cedil;
[¹] => &sup1;
[º] => &ordm;
[»] => &raquo;
[¼] => &frac14;
[½] => &frac12;
[¾] => &frac34;
[¿] => &iquest;
[À] => &Agrave;
[Á] => &Aacute;
[Â] => &Acirc;
[Ã] => &Atilde;
[Ä] => &Auml;
[Å] => &Aring;
[Æ] => &AElig;
[Ç] => &Ccedil;
[È] => &Egrave;
[É] => &Eacute;
[Ê] => &Ecirc;
[Ë] => &Euml;
[Ì] => &Igrave;
[Í] => &Iacute;
[Î] => &Icirc;
[Ï] => &Iuml;
[Ð] => &ETH;
[Ñ] => &Ntilde;
[Ò] => &Ograve;
[Ó] => &Oacute;
[Ô] => &Ocirc;
[Õ] => &Otilde;
[Ö] => &Ouml;
[×] => &times;
[Ø] => &Oslash;
[Ù] => &Ugrave;
[Ú] => &Uacute;
[Û] => &Ucirc;
[Ü] => &Uuml;
[Ý] => &Yacute;
[Þ] => &THORN;
[ß] => &szlig;
[à] => &agrave;
[á] => &aacute;
[â] => &acirc;
[ã] => &atilde;
[ä] => &auml;
[å] => &aring;
[æ] => &aelig;
[ç] => &ccedil;
[è] => &egrave;
[é] => &eacute;
[ê] => &ecirc;
[ë] => &euml;
[ì] => &igrave;
[í] => &iacute;
[î] => &icirc;
[ï] => &iuml;
[ð] => &eth;
[ñ] => &ntilde;
[ò] => &ograve;
[ó] => &oacute;
[ô] => &ocirc;
[õ] => &otilde;
[ö] => &ouml;
[÷] => &divide;
[ø] => &oslash;
[ù] => &ugrave;
[ú] => &uacute;
[û] => &ucirc;
[ü] => &uuml;
[ý] => &yacute;
[þ] => &thorn;
[ÿ] => &yuml;
[Œ] => &OElig;
[œ] => &oelig;
[Š] => &Scaron;
[š] => &scaron;
[Ÿ] => &Yuml;
[ƒ] => &fnof;
[ˆ] => &circ;
[˜] => &tilde;
[Α] => &Alpha;
[Β] => &Beta;
[Γ] => &Gamma;
[Δ] => &Delta;
[Ε] => &Epsilon;
[Ζ] => &Zeta;
[Η] => &Eta;
[Θ] => &Theta;
[Ι] => &Iota;
[Κ] => &Kappa;
[Λ] => &Lambda;
[Μ] => &Mu;
[Ν] => &Nu;
[Ξ] => &Xi;
[Ο] => &Omicron;
[Π] => &Pi;
[Ρ] => &Rho;
[Σ] => &Sigma;
[Τ] => &Tau;
[Υ] => &Upsilon;
[Φ] => &Phi;
[Χ] => &Chi;
[Ψ] => &Psi;
[Ω] => &Omega;
[α] => &alpha;
[β] => &beta;
[γ] => &gamma;
[δ] => &delta;
[ε] => &epsilon;
[ζ] => &zeta;
[η] => &eta;
[θ] => &theta;
[ι] => &iota;
[κ] => &kappa;
[λ] => &lambda;
[μ] => &mu;
[ν] => &nu;
[ξ] => &xi;
[ο] => &omicron;
[π] => &pi;
[ρ] => &rho;
[ς] => &sigmaf;
[σ] => &sigma;
[τ] => &tau;
[υ] => &upsilon;
[φ] => &phi;
[χ] => &chi;
[ψ] => &psi;
[ω] => &omega;
[ϑ] => &thetasym;
[ϒ] => &upsih;
[ϖ] => &piv;
[ ] => &ensp;
[ ] => &emsp;
[ ] => &thinsp;
[‌] => &zwnj;
[‍] => &zwj;
[‎] => &lrm;
[‏] => &rlm;
[–] => &ndash;
[—] => &mdash;
[‘] => &lsquo;
[’] => &rsquo;
[‚] => &sbquo;
[“] => &ldquo;
[”] => &rdquo;
[„] => &bdquo;
[†] => &dagger;
[‡] => &Dagger;
[•] => &bull;
[…] => &hellip;
[‰] => &permil;
[′] => &prime;
[″] => &Prime;
[‹] => &lsaquo;
[›] => &rsaquo;
[‾] => &oline;
[⁄] => &frasl;
[€] => &euro;
[ℑ] => &image;
[℘] => &weierp;
[ℜ] => &real;
[™] => &trade;
[ℵ] => &alefsym;
[←] => &larr;
[↑] => &uarr;
[→] => &rarr;
[↓] => &darr;
[↔] => &harr;
[↵] => &crarr;
[⇐] => &lArr;
[⇑] => &uArr;
[⇒] => &rArr;
[⇓] => &dArr;
[⇔] => &hArr;
[∀] => &forall;
[∂] => &part;
[∃] => &exist;
[∅] => &empty;
[∇] => &nabla;
[∈] => &isin;
[∉] => &notin;
[∋] => &ni;
[∏] => &prod;
[∑] => &sum;
[−] => &minus;
[∗] => &lowast;
[√] => &radic;
[∝] => &prop;
[∞] => &infin;
[∠] => &ang;
[∧] => &and;
[∨] => &or;
[∩] => &cap;
[∪] => &cup;
[∫] => &int;
[∴] => &there4;
[∼] => &sim;
[≅] => &cong;
[≈] => &asymp;
[≠] => &ne;
[≡] => &equiv;
[≤] => &le;
[≥] => &ge;
[⊂] => &sub;
[⊃] => &sup;
[⊄] => &nsub;
[⊆] => &sube;
[⊇] => &supe;
[⊕] => &oplus;
[⊗] => &otimes;
[⊥] => &perp;
[⋅] => &sdot;
[⌈] => &lceil;
[⌉] => &rceil;
[⌊] => &lfloor;
[⌋] => &rfloor;
[〈] => &lang;
[〉] => &rang;
[◊] => &loz;
[♠] => &spades;
[♣] => &clubs;
[♥] => &hearts;
[♦] => &diams;
)

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