Search and replace double quotes

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  15 years ago

  by Santa Clown

  Santa Clown

  Montreal, United States

  Joined 15 years ago

  Hi,
  I'm trying to find a way to change characters like the quote, double quote and the french accent characters (é, à, ç, ect) into html entities. The reason I can't use the htmlentities function is that I want to change everything that are not inside HTML tags
  

  
  So this:
  $s = "this is a <a href=\"link.php?i=1#a\" name=\"École (school in french)\">link to the "school"</a>";
  

  
  Should end up something like:
  "this is a <a href=\"link.php?i=1#a\" name=\"École (school in french)\">link to the "school"</a>";
  

  
  

  
  The changes from the french characters to the html entities is easy since I just run a find and replace, but the quotes are giving me a real problem. As you can see I don't want any change in the tag.
  

  
  I thing the best way to go is regex (if you have anything else to propose I would apreciate it). The thing is that I'm really new at regex, this is what I have ended up with:
  

  Code:

     $patterns[] = "/(<[^>]*>)?\"/";
     $replaces[] = "$1"";
     $retour =  preg_replace($patterns, $replaces, $text);

  
  But this is not working, it changes every " even inside the tag.
  

  
  

  
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  Thank you for any help you can give me,
  Santa Clown

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