ascii code convert function

[cyburdine]

Does anyone know if there is a function that will convert all the "bad" characters (double and single quotes expecially) to their respective ascii code.
For example " would equal &#34
I have written a kloodge, but would love to know a better way to do this. \

function cleaner($TEXT)
{
$HALFWAY = str_replace("'", "&#39", $TEXT);
$DONE = str_replace("\"", "&#34", $HALFWAY);
return($DONE);
}

thanks,
Justin

[vsego]

htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars()