Php function to encode tabs etc to html

Question

I'm looking for a function that encodes spaces, tabs etc into html characters

Eg take the collection of strings:

        Whats up?&^5@#
number  pie     word
1       3       hi
2       4       no

which I process:

$outString="";
for($i=0;$i<count($strArr);$i++){
    $outString.= somefunc($strArr[$i]);//what should somefunc be?
 }

Answer 1

have you seen html entities or html special chars ?