note 98027 deleted from function.htmlentities by danbrown

Note Submitter: Seb ---- 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; }