Posted by Janwillem Borleffs on 08/28/05 14:57

Jonathan Mcdougall wrote:
> Is there a php function which translates special characters to
> character codes?
> htmlentities() only translates to named codes (é).
>

You can use the translation table used by htmlentities() and
htmlspecialchars() as follows:

$table = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
foreach (array_keys($table) as $k) {
$table[$k] = '&#' . ord($k) . ';';
}

And then apply it as the second argument to strtr():

$text = strtr($text, $table);


JW

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