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+ html_entity_decode
+
+ Convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters
+
+
+
+ Description
+
+ stringhtml_entity_decode
+ stringstring
+ intquote_style
+ stringcharset
+
+
+ html_entity_decode is the opposite of
+ htmlentities in that it converts all HTML entities
+ to their applicable characters from string.
+
+
+ The optional second quote_style parameter lets
+ you define what will be done with 'single' and "double" quotes. It takes
+ on one of three constants with the default being
+ ENT_COMPAT:
+
+ Available <parameter>quote_style</parameter> constants
+
+
+
+ Constant Name
+ Description
+
+
+
+
+ END_COMPAT
+ Will convert double-quotes and leave single-quotes alone.
+
+
+ ENT_QUOTES
+ Will convert both double and single quotes.
+
+
+ END_NOQUOTES
+ Will leave both double and single quotes unconverted.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ The ISO-8859-1 character set is used as default for the optional third
+ charset. This defines the character set used in
+ conversion.
+
+
+
+ Decoding html entities
+
+dog now";
+
+$a = htmlentities($orig);
+
+$b = html_entity_decode($a);
+
+echo $a; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now
+
+echo $b; // I'll "walk" the dog now
+
+
+// For users prior to PHP 4.3.0 you may do this:
+function unhtmlentities ($string)
+{
+ $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES);
+ $trans_tbl = array_flip ($trans_tbl);
+ return strtr ($string, $trans_tbl);
+}
+
+$c = unhtmlentities($a);
+
+echo $c; // I'll "walk" the dog now
+
+?>
+]]>
+
+
+
+
+ See also htmlentities,
+ htmlspecialchars,
+ get_html_translation_table,
+ htmlspecialchars and urldecode.
+
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+