diff --git a/phpBB/includes/functions.php b/phpBB/includes/functions.php
index d7088ac129..5d8a92b63b 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/functions.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/functions.php
@@ -4893,6 +4893,53 @@ function phpbb_http_login($param)
 	trigger_error('NOT_AUTHORISED');
 }
 
+/**
+* Escapes and quotes a string for use as an HTML/XML attribute value.
+*
+* This is a port of Python xml.sax.saxutils quoteattr.
+*
+* The function will attempt to choose a quote character in such a way as to
+* avoid escaping quotes in the string. If this is not possible the string will
+* be wrapped in double quotes and double quotes will be escaped.
+*
+* @param string $data The string to be escaped
+* @param array $entities Associative array of additional entities to be escaped
+* @return string Escaped and quoted string
+*/
+function phpbb_quoteattr($data, $entities = null)
+{
+	$data = str_replace('&', '&', $data);
+	$data = str_replace('>', '>', $data);
+	$data = str_replace('<', '&lt;', $data);
+
+	$data = str_replace("\n", '&#10;', $data);
+	$data = str_replace("\r", '&#13;', $data);
+	$data = str_replace("\t", '&#9;', $data);
+
+	if (!empty($entities))
+	{
+		$data = str_replace(array_keys($entities), array_values($entities), $data);
+	}
+
+	if (strpos($data, '"') !== false)
+	{
+		if (strpos($data, "'") !== false)
+		{
+			$data = '"' . str_replace('"', '&quot;', $data) . '"';
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			$data = "'" . $data . "'";
+		}
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		$data = '"' . $data . '"';
+	}
+
+	return $data;
+}
+
 /**
 * Generate page header
 */
diff --git a/tests/functions/quoteattr_test.php b/tests/functions/quoteattr_test.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9d2a7d470e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/functions/quoteattr_test.php
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<?php
+/**
+*
+* @package testing
+* @copyright (c) 2012 phpBB Group
+* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php GNU General Public License v2
+*
+*/
+
+require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../phpBB/includes/functions.php';
+
+class phpbb_quoteattr_test extends phpbb_test_case
+{
+	public function quoteattr_test_data()
+	{
+		return array(
+			array('foo', null, '"foo"'),
+			array('', null, '""'),
+			array(' ', null, '" "'),
+			array('<a>', null, '"&lt;a&gt;"'),
+			array('&amp;', null, '"&amp;amp;"'),
+			array('"hello"', null, "'\"hello\"'"),
+			array("'hello'", null, "\"'hello'\""),
+			array("\"'", null, "\"&quot;'\""),
+			array("a\nb", null, '"a&#10;b"'),
+			array("a\r\nb", null, '"a&#13;&#10;b"'),
+			array("a\tb", null, '"a&#9;b"'),
+			array('a b', null, '"a b"'),
+			array('"a<b"', null, "'\"a&lt;b\"'"),
+			array('foo', array('f' => 'z'), '"zoo"'),
+			array('<a>', array('a' => '&amp;'), '"&lt;&amp;&gt;"'),
+		);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	* @dataProvider quoteattr_test_data
+	*/
+	public function test_quoteattr($input, $entities, $expected)
+	{
+		$output = phpbb_quoteattr($input, $entities);
+
+		$this->assertEquals($expected, $output);
+	}
+}