note 98027 added to function.htmlentities

I have recently built the function which converts all special characters from a given string, but excapes all html tags and if there are already any valid special characters - it simply ignores them. Here it is: function encodeHTML($string) { $pattern = '<([a-zA-Z0-9\.\, "\'_\/\-\+~=;:\(\)?&#%![\]@]+)>'; // put text only, devided by html tags into array $textMatches = preg_split('/' . $pattern . '/', $string); // array for sanitised output $textSanitised = array(); foreach($textMatches as $key => $value) { $textSanitised[$key] = htmlentities(html_entity_decode($value, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); } foreach($textMatches as $key => $value) { $string = str_replace($value, $textSanitised[$key], $string); } return $string; } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 93.97.189.29 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/98027 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98027/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98027/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98027/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98027/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98027/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98027/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98027 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/98027 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php