PHP: Get encoded html entities

Question

I'm trying to get the html entities of a UTF-8 string,
Example: example.com/search?q=مرحبا

<?php
    echo htmlentities($_GET['q']);
?>

I got:

Ù…Ø±ØØ¨Ø§0Ù…Ø±ØØ¨Ø§

It's UTF-8 text not html entities, what I need is:

&#1605;&#1585;&#1581;&#1576;&#1575;

I have tried urldecode and htmlentities functions!

You need to change the Html page Encoding to unicode UTF-8, you can check the current encoding from the browser. To change the default encoding see @user1122069 answer. — Salah, Nov 07 '15 at 04:55

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '15 at 04:43

Add this code to the start of your file:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

The browser needs to know it is UTF-8. This tag also can go in the head section for formality.

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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I think you can solve it by getting the each char in the string and get its value.
From Mark Baker's answer and vartec's answer you can get:

<?php
    $chrArray = preg_split('//u',$_GET['q'], -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
    $htmlEntities = "";
    foreach ($chrArray as $chr) {
        $htmlEntities .= '&#'._uniord($chr).';';
    }
    echo $htmlEntities;
?>

I have not test it.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Nov 08 '15 at 22:18

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