html entries encode help

hello ,
i wanna encode some texts to html entries, i was trying with php but my server doesnt provide the html entries encode function .

so please how can i encode the text with frontage or any other programming language or any kind of software ???

thanks

 

have you tried url_encode() in php? Is that working?

 

no i dont mean the url_encode() and it will not gonna work , iam talking about htmlentities(); http://www.php.net/htmlentities , but it doesnt work on php 5 as i heard

that mean i need any other way to convert text like hello word to the html entries

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(i added spaces to make the code accepted in the forum because the forum will transfer it back to hello word)