htmlentities is a security function in PHP that converts special characters into their corresponding HTML entities. This helps to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks by encoding the data before it is displayed on a webpage.
Code Example:
$string = "Hello, World!";
echo htmlentities($string);
Output: Hello, World!
In this example, the function htmlentities is used to encode the string and prevent the malicious script from being executed.
The htmlentities function is part of the PHP core library and does not require any additional package or library to be installed.
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