Question

I want to covert a simple string in Unicode like this:

simple string =  `Pritesh & Nilesh is a good friend.`

And I want to get in this form:

string =  `Pritesh & Nilesh is good friend.`

I want to convert to this type of string.

Answer 1

You need to use htmlentities() in php. This replaces all special html characters with their &xxxx; symbols. The PHP manual page is here for more info. For your example this would be:

$string = "Pritesh & Nilesh is good friend.";
$string = htmlentities($string, ENT_HTML5);

However this won’t replace your spaces with line-breaks as these are considered standard html character and shouldn’t be necessary in 99.9% of cases anyway. However if really need this you can use either php for this:

$string = str_replace(" ", " ", $string);

Or javascript:

var myString= $string;
myString.replace(/ /g,' ');

as done here