[Resolved] htmlentities (all)

[devinemke]

I am familiar with htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() however i was looking for a function to convert ALL characters to HTML entities (not just the ones defined in get_html_translation_table). i looked through the manual and could not find this, am i going to have to roll my own?

[laserlight]

You might want to look into [man]ord/man, though it doesnt quite do what you want.

[devinemke]

yeah, i did look at ord() and chr() but neither one spits out the HTML entity. I guess I may have to pull everything from http://www.asciitable.com and create an array with the actual symbol as the keys and the HTML entity as the values and then do something like

echo $asciitable['e']; // outputs e
echo $asciitable['E']; // outputs E

i'm quite surprised PHP doesn't have a built in function for this.

[laserlight]

yeah, i did look at ord() and chr() but neither one spits out the HTML entity.

Well, just write the function yourself:

function allhtmlentities($str) {
	$ret = '';
	$len = strlen($str);
	for ($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++)
		$ret .= '&#' . ord($str{$i}) . ';';
	return $ret;
}

[devinemke]

perfect, thank you