note 45079 added to function.htmlentities

It seems a lot of folk have been looking for a function to convert character entities to their *numeric* equivalents, but the only solution I'd seen was to use mb_encode_numericentity, but that's not easy for us to switch on, so here's a simple alternative which uses urlencode to convert the entities to numbers, then uses preg_replace to wrap them in the &#x..; //======================= // html_numeric_entities //-------------------------------------------------------- // Convert all applicable characters to HTML numeric entities. //============================================ function html_numeric_entities($string) { $string = urlencode($string); $string = preg_replace('/(%)(..)/', '&#x\\2;', $string); $string = str_replace('+', ' ', $string); return $string; } Hope you find it useful! Tim http://www.web-bureau.com ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+45079 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+45079&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+45079&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php