Converting named HTML entities to numeric HTML entities

Question

Is there a PHP function to convert named HTML entities into their respective numeric HTML entities?

For example:

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Answer 1

First use html_entity_decode to get the unencoded version of your source code. If necessary, set the third parameter (encoding) to the proper value.

Then use utf8_encode on that source code.

$source_code_without_entities = html_entity_decode($source_code_with_entities);
$utf8_source_code = utf8_encode($source_code_without_entities);