Question

Is there a way I can convert ALL characters, including regular ones, using PHP to something like this:

&\#38; &\#233; &\#224; &\#231; &\#60;

When I say regular characters I mean to say chars like "ABCD123!@#$", etc.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can do it with this one liner.

1. Split string into a proper array.
2. Iterate over characters getting their ordinal value.
3. Join with the entity pattern.

echo '&#' . join(';&#', array_map('ord', str_split($str))) . ';';

CodePad.

Also, you said you wanted to convert the characters to their hex equivalent, but none of your values appear to be hex, unless it’s a coincidence and there are just no a-f in your example.