note 82774 added to function.htmlentities

my code has been like this ugly all the time: echo nl2br( str_replace(' ',' ', htmlentities( $string ) ) ); it would be great if this function has the option to encode spaces to  (s), because it's also among the html special char equivalents. ---- Server IP: 203.169.164.81 Probable Submitter: 218.188.201.184 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/82774 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82774/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82774/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82774/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82774/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82774/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82774/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82774 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/82774 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php