I found this code in a user comment in the PHP docs for htmlentities():
<?php
function xml_character_encode($string, $trans='') {
$trans = (is_array($trans)) ? $trans :
get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES);
foreach ($trans as $k=>$v)
$trans[$k]= "&#".ord($k).";";
return strtr($string, $trans);
}
?>
It seems to work. For instance, this (assuming UTF-8 encoding):
echo xml_character_encode('Château');
echo "\n";
echo xml_character_encode('Ch&teau');
Yields this:
Château
Ch&teau
My question is, *how* does it work? It makes sense right up to the return
statement. According to the docs for strstr(), when a non-string is passed in
as the needle, it's, "converted to an integer and applied as the ordinal value
of a character." First, an array-to-int conversion is undefined, though it
seems to produce 1 on my copy of PHP. Now, I'm not quite sure how to interpret
the last part of that statement from the docs, but I take it that the ultimate
value supplied to strstr() is going to be either '1' (the character value of
the integer value of the array) or '49' (the ordinal value of the character
'1'). Whatever, neither one makes sense to look for in the haystack, so I'm
obviously missing something.
Perhaps it's just late-Monday slowness on my part, but what's going on here? I
have no intention of using this code, but I'd sure like to understand how it
works!
Regards,
Bob
--
Robert E. Williams, Jr.
Associate Vice President of Software Development
Newtek Businesss Services, Inc. -- The Small Business Authority
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