Reputation: 471
I have an xml document that gets loaded onto a page. Sometimes there are specific characters that cannot be parsed and shows this symbol in place of what should be there: –
Sometimes the character varies from a hyphen, to an apostrophe, to even a double quote.
What I'd like to do is, create an array:
$invalidCharacters = array(" – ", "’", "&");
and if the string contains any of those characters, replace them with their HTML/ASCII equivalent. like this: " – "
, "'"
, and &
.
I know that I can do a str_replace()
on some items, but, is there a simple way to have it go trough a loop and look for the specific characters, replacing each as it goes?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 158
Reputation: 36
Using htmlspecialchars
should work for you.
http://docs.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php
Upvotes: 2