Re: Convert Characters

From:	Roger Spears	Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:46:12 +0000
Subject:	Re: Convert Characters
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Reuben Sant wrote:

Hi, Is there a way to convert any character to it's HTML &#xxx; equivalent in PHP? For example A is the letter "A" where the number 65 represents it's ASCII code.

This may help. It's a function from Tom Rogers, or was it Tim Rogers, I can't remember. function clean_ms_word($original) {

    $crap = array(chr(0x82),chr(0x83),chr(0x84),chr(0x85),chr(0x86),chr(0x87),chr(0x88),chr(0x89),chr(0x8a),chr(0x8b),chr(0x8c),chr(0x91),chr(0x92),chr(0x93),chr(0x94),chr(0x95),chr(0x96),chr(0x97),chr(0x98),chr(0x99),chr(0x9a),chr(0x9b),chr(0x9c),chr(0x9f));
    $clean = array('&lsquor;','&fnof;','&ldquor;','&ldots;','&dagger;','&Dagger;','','&permil;','&Scaron;','&lsaquo;','&OElig;','&lsquo;','&rsquo;','&quot;','&quot;','&bull;','&ndash;','&mdash;','&tilde;','&trade;','&scaron;','&rsaquo;','&oelig;','&Yuml;');
    $content = str_replace($crap,$clean,$writing);
    return $content;

} $new = clean_ms_word($original); $crap is the stuff you don't want. $clean is the stuff you want. So, chr(0x82) would become &lsquor. HTH, Roger