Convert Accented Characters to HTML Entities in PHP

October 30, 2021 - 1 minute read

This PHP function uses the built-in htmlentities function to convert the accented characters in a given string to HTML entities:

function accentedToHtml($str) {
    $html = htmlentities($str, 0, 'UTF-8');
    if ($html === '') {
        $html = htmlentities(utf8_encode($str), 0, 'UTF-8');
    }
    return $html;
}

Here is some example usage:

$str = "éxample";
$html = accentedToHtml($str);

After the above code has run, $html will equal éexample.

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