[thelist] PHP htmlentities() ??

[Burhan Khalid]

If you are prepping this string for use in a query, then try :

mysql_escape_string (unescaped_string);

It returns a string that is formatted for use in an mySQL query. From the
horse :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-escape-string.php

hth,
Burhan Khalid