/**
* Converts a UTF8-string into HTML entities
*
* When using UTF-8 as a charset you want to convert multi-byte characters.
* This function takes multi-byte characters up to level 4 into account.
* Htmlentities will only convert 1-byte and 2-byte characters.
* Use this function if you want to convert 3-byte and 4-byte characters also.
*
* @author silverbeat gmx at
* @link http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.htmlentities.php#96648
*
* @param $utf8 string The UTF8-string to convert
* @param $encodeTags booloean TRUE will convert "<" to "<", Default = false
* @return returns the converted HTML-string
*/
public static function UTF8_to_HTML($utf8, $encodeTags = false)
{
// check if this function was aleady loaded
if (isset(self::$already_loaded[__FUNCTION__]) === false) {
// if not, load function
include __DIR__ . '/Pool/' . __FUNCTION__ . '.php';
// function loaded successfully
self::$already_loaded[__FUNCTION__] = true;
}
// calling the loaded function
return UTF8_to_HTML($utf8, $encodeTags);
}
/**
* Converts a UTF8-string into HTML entities.
*
* When using UTF-8 as a charset you want to convert multi-byte characters.
* This function takes multi-byte characters up to level 4 into account.
* Htmlentities will only convert 1-byte and 2-byte characters.
* Use this function if you want to convert 3-byte and 4-byte characters also.
*
* @author silverbeat gmx at
*
* @link http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.htmlentities.php#96648
*
* @param $utf8 string The UTF8-string to convert
* @param $encodeTags booloean TRUE will convert "<" to "<", Default = false
*
* @return string the converted HTML-string
*/
public static function utf8ToHtml($utf8, $encodeTags = false)
{
include_once __DIR__ . '/Pool/UTF8_to_HTML.php';
// calling the loaded function
return UTF8_to_HTML($utf8, $encodeTags);
}