t">Safely formatted string</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p>
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<p>This is a security function that converts PHP tags to entities.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last"><a class="reference internal" href="#xss_clean" title="xss_clean"><tt class="xref php php-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">xss_clean()</span></tt><