Need to parse out any SPECIAL CHAR in HTML

[s0me0ne]

How do I parse out any special characters that are not in HTML tags?

example

<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Bob & Susan's Blog</a>

It should convert it to

<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Bob &amp; Susan's Blog</a>

note how it left the HTML tag alone

It needs to do the following:

'&' (ampersand) becomes '&'
'"' (double quote) becomes '"'
''' (single quote) becomes '''
'<' (less than) becomes '&lt;'
'>' (greater than) becomes '&gt

I'm not good at using the function ereg_replace 🙁

[Merve]

Sounds like all you really need is [man]htmlspecialchars[/man]. But you can also use [man]htmlentities[/man].

[s0me0ne]

Merve wrote:

Sounds like all you really need is [man]htmlspecialchars[/man]. But you can also use [man]htmlentities[/man].

yeh but it will even do my HTML code which is what I want it to not do, only characters NOT in html 😕