htmlentities2() WordPress Function

The htmlentities2() function is a built-in function in WordPress that is used to convert all applicable characters to HTML entities. This function is similar to the htmlentities() function, with the only difference being that htmlentities2() also converts UTF-8 characters to HTML entities.

htmlentities2( string $myHTML ) #

function htmlentities2( $myHTML ) {
	$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};)/', '&', strtr( $myHTML, $translation_table ) );
}