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// utility to convert XML entities to HTML entities
function encode($string)
{
$entities = array(' & ' => ' & ', '&' => ' & ',
'<' => '<', '>' => '>',
''' => "'", '"' => '"');
$string = strtr(utf8_decode($string), $entities);
return htmlentities($string, ENT_QUOTES);
}
// utility to convert XML entities to regular characters
function xml_decode($string, $space = true)
{
if ($space)
$entities = array(' & ' => ' & ', '&' => ' & ',
'<' => '<', '>' => '>',
''' => "'", '"' => '"');
else
$entities = array('&' => '&', '&' => '&',
'<' => '<', '>' => '>',
''' => "'", '"' => '"');
return strtr(utf8_decode($string), $entities);
}
// utility to remove accents from characters
function accents($string)
{
$accents = array('à' => 'a', 'á' => 'a', 'â' => 'a', 'ã' => 'a',
'ä' => 'a', 'å' => 'a',
'ç' => 'c',
'è' => 'e', 'é' => 'e', 'ê' => 'e', 'ë' => 'e',
'ì' => 'i', 'í' => 'i', 'î' => 'i', 'ï' => 'i',
'ò' => 'o', 'ó' => 'o', 'ô' => 'o', 'õ' => 'o',
'ö' => 'o',
'ù' => 'u', 'ú' => 'u', 'û' => 'u', 'ü' => 'u');
$string = str_replace(''', "'", $string);
$string = htmlentities($string, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8');
return strtr($string, $accents);
}
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