replace ASCII character with proper HTML tag format

[benphelps]

I need to replace an ASCII character with an HTML tag.

 

This string would be formatted like this:

\x02 String to be inside tag \x02 this should not be in the tag

 

I know i can do this with

str_replace(chr(02), '<htmltag>', $string)

The above would print this

<htmltag> String to be inside tag <htmltag> this should not be in the tag

 

I need it to pring this:

<htmltag> String to be inside tag </htmltag> this should not be in the tag

 

How can I finish the html tag?