Hi I am using the htmlentities() PHP function for a chat room to prevent HTML being echo'd out into the chat.
Basically I want to allow this '<3' which PHP will replace with the Heart emoticon but due to the '<' symbol, the htmlentities() function is thinking it is HTML so it just comes out as plain text on the site like this '<3' and not the heart emoticon.
How can I allow users to type '<3' and it come out as a heart?
Use str_replace("<3","<3", $msg['message_text']); to replace the '<3' with a heart