php-doc-en/reference/strings/functions/html-entity-decode.xml

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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.html-entity-decode">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>html_entity_decode</refname>
  <refpurpose>Convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>string</type><methodname>html_entity_decode</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>string</parameter></methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>flags</parameter><initializer>ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401</initializer></methodparam>
   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>charset</parameter><initializer>'UTF-8'</initializer></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   <function>html_entity_decode</function> is the opposite of
   <function>htmlentities</function> in that it converts all HTML entities
   in the <parameter>string</parameter> to their applicable characters.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>string</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The input string.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>flags</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       A bitmask of one or more of the following flags, which specify how to handle quotes and
       which document type to use. The default is <literal>ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401</literal>.
       <table>
        <title>Available <parameter>flags</parameter> constants</title>
        <tgroup cols="2">
         <thead>
          <row>
           <entry>Constant Name</entry>
           <entry>Description</entry>
          </row>
         </thead>
         <tbody>
          <row>
           <entry><constant>ENT_COMPAT</constant></entry>
           <entry>Will convert double-quotes and leave single-quotes alone.</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
           <entry><constant>ENT_QUOTES</constant></entry>
           <entry>Will convert both double and single quotes.</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
           <entry><constant>ENT_NOQUOTES</constant></entry>
           <entry>Will leave both double and single quotes unconverted.</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
           <entry><constant>ENT_HTML401</constant></entry>
           <entry>
            Handle code as HTML 4.01.
           </entry>
          </row>
          <row>
           <entry><constant>ENT_XML1</constant></entry>
           <entry>
            Handle code as XML 1.
           </entry>
          </row>
          <row>
           <entry><constant>ENT_XHTML</constant></entry>
           <entry>
            Handle code as XHTML.
           </entry>
          </row>
          <row>
           <entry><constant>ENT_HTML5</constant></entry>
           <entry>
            Handle code as HTML 5.
           </entry>
          </row>
         </tbody>
        </tgroup>
       </table>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>charset</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Character set to use.
       If omitted, the default value for this argument is ISO-8859-1 in
       versions of PHP prior to 5.4.0, and UTF-8 from PHP 5.4.0 onwards.
      </para>
      &reference.strings.charsets;
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns the decoded string.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="changelog">
  &reftitle.changelog;
  <para>
   <informaltable>
    <tgroup cols="2">
     <thead>
      <row>
       <entry>&Version;</entry>
       <entry>&Description;</entry>
      </row>
     </thead>
     <tbody>
      <row>
       <entry>5.4.0</entry>
       <entry>
        Default charset changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>5.4.0</entry>
       <entry>
        The constants <constant>ENT_HTML401</constant>, <constant>ENT_XML1</constant>,
        <constant>ENT_XHTML</constant> and <constant>ENT_HTML5</constant> were added.
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>5.0.0</entry>
       <entry>
        Support for multi-byte character sets was added.
       </entry>
      </row>
     </tbody>
    </tgroup>
   </informaltable>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Decoding HTML entities</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$orig = "I'll \"walk\" the <b>dog</b> now";

$a = htmlentities($orig);

$b = html_entity_decode($a);

echo $a; // I'll &quot;walk&quot; the &lt;b&gt;dog&lt;/b&gt; now

echo $b; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>   
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="notes">
  &reftitle.notes;
  <note>
   <para>
    You might wonder why trim(html_entity_decode('&amp;nbsp;')); doesn't
    reduce the string to an empty string, that's because the '&amp;nbsp;'
    entity is not ASCII code 32 (which is stripped by
    <function>trim</function>) but ASCII code 160 (0xa0) in the default ISO
    8859-1 characterset.
   </para>
  </note>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>htmlentities</function></member>
    <member><function>htmlspecialchars</function></member>
    <member><function>get_html_translation_table</function></member>
    <member><function>urldecode</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>

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