PHP FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS Filter
What is FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS in PHP?
Explanation
PHP FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS is used to remove or strip or encode the special characters related to HTML-escapes characters based on ASCII values.
Name: "special_chars"
ID-number: 515
<?php
$val="Hscripts.com is webmaster & resources <hscripts.com> ";
echo filter_var($val,FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS);
?>
Result :
Hscripts.com is webmaster & resources <hscripts.com>
In page source
Hscripts.com is webmaster & resources < hscripts.com>
In the above example, the given value in $val is encoded as in page source.
Name: "special_chars"
ID-number: 515
Options:
| FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW | Strip characters with ASCII value below 32 |
| FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_HIGH | Strip characters with ASCII value above 32 |
| FILTER_FLAG_ENCODE_HIGH | Encode characters with ASCII value above 32 |
Example :
<?php
$val="Hscripts.com is webmaster & resources <hscripts.com> ";
echo filter_var($val,FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS);
?>
Result :
Hscripts.com is webmaster & resources <hscripts.com>
In page source
Hscripts.com is webmaster & resources < hscripts.com>
In the above example, the given value in $val is encoded as in page source.
