htmlentities() trouble

[manicleek]

Whenever I add a £ sign into my DB via a form, it enters £ instead of £

however it converts others, such as & to & without trouble.

Can anyone help with this?

[Mittineague]

The pound sign is a problem because of the character encoding.

string htmlentities ( string $string [, int $quote_style [, string $charset [, bool $double_encode]]] )

You may be able to solve your problem by specifying the $charset argument.
Other than that, you could try str_replace()