Date: 11/29/07 (Code WTF)    Keywords: html

class SomeClass {

    ...

    function _NormalizeString($string) {
        $string = (isset($this->needToStripTags) && $this->needToStripTags) ? strip_tags($string) : $string;
        $string = stripslashes($string);
        if ($this->_needToConvert) {
            $string = strtr($string, $this->_htmlEsc);
            $string =
            $string = strtr($string, array_flip($this->_htmlEsc));
        }
        return $string;
    }
}

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/code_wtf/116304.html