htmlentities2() │ WP 1.2.2

Converts entities, while preserving already-encoded entities.

No Hooks.

Returns

String. Converted text.

Usage

htmlentities2( $text );

$text(string) (required)

The text to be converted.

Changelog

htmlentities2() htmlentities2 code ^{WP 6.9}

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};)/', '&', strtr( $text, $translation_table ) );
}