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htmlentities2( string $text ): string

Converts entities, while preserving already-encoded entities.

Parameters

$textstringrequired: The text to be converted.

Return

string Converted text.

Source

function htmlentities2( $text ) {
	$translation_table = get_html_translation_table( HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES );

	$translation_table[ chr( 38 ) ] = '&';

	return preg_replace( '/&(?![A-Za-z]{0,4}\w{2,3};|#[0-9]{2,3};)/', '&amp;', strtr( $text, $translation_table ) );
}

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Changelog

Version	Description
1.2.2	Introduced.

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