Only Convert HTML Entity's That are Not in "<" & ">"

Hiya!

I have a script that displays HTML. How do I convert HTML Entity's that are not inside the "<" and ">" symbols.

In the following example, only the items shown in bold and blue should be coverted to their HTML equivalent codes. e.g. &pound;

<div name="divname" style="width: 200px; height: 100px;">[COLOR=red]I[COLOR=blue][B]'[/B][/COLOR]ve got to save[B] [COLOR=blue]£[/COLOR][/B]3000 in order to buy a new car[B][COLOR=blue]![/COLOR][/B][/COLOR]</div>

Code (markup):

Many Thanks,

 

Here is an example how to do it, but it doesn't convert the symbol ! because it hasn't entity:

$text = "<div name=\"divname\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 100px;\">I've got to save £3000 in order to buy a new car!</div>";
$chars = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES,ENT_QUOTES);
unset($chars["<"]);
unset($chars[">"]);

foreach(array_keys($chars) as $key){
    $text = preg_replace('/'.$key.'(?![^<]*[>])/i', $chars[$key], $text);
}

echo($text);

PHP:

 

Excellent thanks. Out of interest, is it possible to do this without using a regular expression?

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

 

$trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES);

unset($trans['<'], $trans['>']);

$str = <<<eof
<div name="divname" style="width: 200px; height: 100px;">I've got to save £3000 in order to buy a new car!</div>
eof;

echo strtr($str, $trans);

PHP:

or

function convert2entities($str) {

//temporarily replace with placeholders...
$str = str_replace(array('<', '>'), array('{OPEN}', '{CLOSE}'), $str);

$str = htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);

//remove the placeholders...
return str_replace(array('{OPEN}', '{CLOSE}'), array('<', '>'), $str);

}

$str = <<<eof
<div name="divname" style="width: 200px; height: 100px;">I've got to save £3000 in order to buy a new car!</div>
eof;

echo convert2entities($str);

PHP:

Both are untested.