note 90111 modified in function.htmlentities by thiago

I took one of the previous functions above - (which only encodes the string once - which is great) and added the ability to encode & -> &amp; See below. Its a shame we cant do this straight with htmlentities (with double encode set to false) <?php function htmlButTags($str) { // Take all the html entities $caracteres = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES); // Find out the "tags" entities $remover = get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS); // Spit out the tags entities from the original table $caracteres = array_diff($caracteres, $remover); // Translate the string.... $str = strtr($str, $caracteres); // And that's it! // oo now amps $str = preg_replace("/&(?![A-Za-z]{0,4}\w{2,3};|#[0-9]{2,3};)/","&amp;" , $str); return $str; } ?> --was-- I took one of the previous functions above - (which only encodes the string once - which is great) and added the ability to encode & -> &amp; See below. Its a shame we cant do this straight with htmlentities (with double encode set to false) function htmlButTags($str) { // Take all the html entities $caracteres = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES); // Find out the "tags" entities $remover = get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS); // Spit out the tags entities from the original table $caracteres = array_diff($caracteres, $remover); // Translate the string.... $str = strtr($str, $caracteres); // And that's it! // oo now amps $str = preg_replace("/&(?![A-Za-z]{0,4}\w{2,3};|#[0-9]{2,3};)/","&amp;" , $str); return $str; } http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php