htmlentities() not returnung expected output

[webdev007]

This is part of a class
this simple function is aiming at using htmlentites.
somewhere I do not see what is wrong because if I test it with for example "<b>xxxxx</b>"
the echoed result is still "<b>xxxxx</b>

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
function CleanPost($str)
{
if (isset ($str) && !empty($str) )
{
return htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
}
}


// Testing **********

$str=($_POST['url']);

echo CleanPost($str);

?>

 

[jpadie]

when you say the "echoed result" are you looking at the source code or the browser rendered results? i suspect you need to be looking at the source code.

 

[vacunita]

That is the expected result from htmlentities. The only difference is that the <b></b> wont get parsed by the browser, and so the text in between will not be bold, and you'll be able to see the <b> tags.

Otherwise you'd just get :
xxxxx

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[webdev007]

Thanks Both
vacunita, now I got it! not knowing the full extension of the result caused my comfusion.