PHPget_html_translation_table() Function

Example

Print the translation table used by the htmlspecialchars function:

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

Definition and Usage

The get_html_translation_table() function returns the translation table used by thehtmlentities() andhtmlspecialchars() 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 Values

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.

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 thecharacter-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 Thecharacter-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
(
["] => "
[&] => &
[<] => <
[>] => >
)

Example

Table for HTML_ENTITIES:

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

Displaying character and entity name:

Array
(
["] => "
[&] => &
[<] => <
[>] => >
[ ] =>  
[¡] => ¡
[¢] => ¢
[£] => £
[¤] => ¤
[¥] => ¥
[¦] => ¦
[§] => §
[¨] => ¨
[©] => ©
[ª] => ª
[«] => «
[¬] => ¬
[�] => 
[®] => ®
[¯] => ¯
[°] => °
[±] => ±
[²] => ²
[³] => ³
[´] => ´
[µ] => µ
[¶] => ¶
[·] => ·
[¸] => ¸
[¹] => ¹
[º] => º
[»] => »
[¼] => ¼
[½] => ½
[¾] => ¾
[¿] => ¿
[À] => À
[Á] => Á
[Â] => Â
[Ã] => Ã
[Ä] => Ä
[Å] => Å
[Æ] => Æ
[Ç] => Ç
[È] => È
[É] => É
[Ê] => Ê
[Ë] => Ë
[Ì] => Ì
[Í] => Í
[Î] => Î
[Ï] => Ï
[Ð] => Ð
[Ñ] => Ñ
[Ò] => Ò
[Ó] => Ó
[Ô] => Ô
[Õ] => Õ
[Ö] => Ö
[×] => ×
[Ø] => Ø
[Ù] => Ù
[Ú] => Ú
[Û] => Û
[Ü] => Ü
[Ý] => Ý
[Þ] => Þ
[ß] => ß
[à] => à
[á] => á
[â] => â
[ã] => ã
[ä] => ä
[å] => å
[æ] => æ
[ç] => ç
[è] => è
[é] => é
[ê] => ê
[ë] => ë
[ì] => ì
[í] => í
[î] => î
[ï] => ï
[ð] => ð
[ñ] => ñ
[ò] => ò
[ó] => ó
[ô] => ô
[õ] => õ
[ö] => ö
[÷] => ÷
[ø] => ø
[ù] => ù
[ú] => ú
[û] => û
[ü] => ü
[ý] => ý
[þ] => þ
[ÿ] => ÿ
[Œ] => &OElig;
[œ] => &oelig;
[Š] => &Scaron;
[š] => &scaron;
[Ÿ] => &Yuml;
[ƒ] => &fnof;
[ˆ] => &circ;
[˜] => &tilde;
[Α] => Α
[Β] => Β
[Γ] => Γ
[Δ] => Δ
[Ε] => Ε
[Ζ] => Ζ
[Η] => Η
[Θ] => Θ
[Ι] => Ι
[Κ] => Κ
[Λ] => Λ
[Μ] => Μ
[Ν] => Ν
[Ξ] => Ξ
[Ο] => Ο
[Π] => Π
[Ρ] => Ρ
[Σ] => Σ
[Τ] => Τ
[Υ] => Υ
[Φ] => Φ
[Χ] => Χ
[Ψ] => Ψ
[Ω] => Ω
[α] => α
[β] => β
[γ] => γ
[δ] => δ
[ε] => ε
[ζ] => ζ
[η] => η
[θ] => θ
[ι] => ι
[κ] => κ
[λ] => λ
[μ] => μ
[ν] => ν
[ξ] => ξ
[ο] => ο
[π] => π
[ρ] => ρ
[ς] => &sigmaf;
[σ] => σ
[τ] => τ
[υ] => υ
[φ] => φ
[χ] => χ
[ψ] => ψ
[ω] => ω
[ϑ] => &thetasym;
[ϒ] => &upsih;
[ϖ] => ϖ
[ ] => &ensp;
[ ] => &emsp;
[ ] =>  
[‌] => &zwnj;
[‍] => &zwj;
[‎] => &lrm;
[‏] => &rlm;
[–] => –
[—] => —
[‘] => ‘
[’] => ’
[‚] => &sbquo;
[“] => “
[”] => ”
[„] => &bdquo;
[†] => &dagger;
[‡] => &Dagger;
[•] => •
[…] => …
[‰] => &permil;
[′] => ′
[″] => ″
[‹] => &lsaquo;
[›] => &rsaquo;
[‾] => &oline;
[⁄] => &frasl;
[€] => €
[ℑ] => &image;
[℘] => &weierp;
[ℜ] => &real;
[™] => ™
[ℵ] => &alefsym;
[←] => ←
[↑] => ↑
[→] => →
[↓] => ↓
[↔] => ↔
[↵] => &crarr;
[⇐] => ⇐
[⇑] => &uArr;
[⇒] => ⇒
[⇓] => &dArr;
[⇔] => ⇔
[∀] => ∀
[∂] => ∂
[∃] => ∃
[∅] => ∅
[∇] => ∇
[∈] => ∈
[∉] => ∉
[∋] => &ni;
[∏] => ∏
[∑] => ∑
[−] => −
[∗] => &lowast;
[√] => √
[∝] => &prop;
[∞] => ∞
[∠] => &ang;
[∧] => &and;
[∨] => &or;
[∩] => ∩
[∪] => ∪
[∫] => ∫
[∴] => &there4;
[∼] => &sim;
[≅] => &cong;
[≈] => ≈
[≠] => ≠
[≡] => &equiv;
[≤] => ≤
[≥] => ≥
[⊂] => ⊂
[⊃] => ⊃
[⊄] => &nsub;
[⊆] => &sube;
[⊇] => &supe;
[⊕] => &oplus;
[⊗] => &otimes;
[⊥] => &perp;
[⋅] => ⋅
[⌈] => &lceil;
[⌉] => &rceil;
[⌊] => &lfloor;
[⌋] => &rfloor;
[〈] => &lang;
[〉] => &rang;
[◊] => &loz;
[♠] => &spades;
[♣] => &clubs;
[♥] => &hearts;
[♦] => &diams;
)

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