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PHP html_entity_decode() Function
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Complete PHP String Reference
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Definition and Usage
The html_entity_decode() function converts HTML entities to characters.
The html_entity_decode() function is the opposite of htmlentities().
Syntax
html_entity_decode(string,quotestyle,character-set)
Parameter Description
string Required. Specifies the string to decode
quotestyle Optional. Specifies how to decode single and double quotes.
The available quote styles are:
ENT_COMPAT - Default. Decodes only double quotes
ENT_QUOTES - Decodes double and single quotes
ENT_NOQUOTES - Does not decode any quotes
character-set Optional. A string that specifies which character-set to use.
Allowed values are:
ISO-8859-1 - Default. Western European
ISO-8859-15 - Western European (adds the Euro sign + French and Finnish letters missing in ISO-8859-1)
UTF-8 - ASCII compatible multi-byte 8-bit Unicode
cp866 - DOS-specific Cyrillic charset
cp1251 - Windows-specific Cyrillic charset
cp1252 - Windows specific charset for Western European
KOI8-R - Russian
BIG5 - Traditional Chinese, mainly used in Taiwan
GB2312 - Simplified Chinese, national standard character set
BIG5-HKSCS - Big5 with Hong Kong extensions
Shift_JIS - Japanese
EUC-JP - Japanese
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Tips and Notes
Note: Unrecognized character-sets will be ignored and replaced by ISO-8859-1.
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Example 1
$str = "Jane & 'Tarzan'";
echo html_entity_decode($str);
echo "
";
echo html_entity_decode($str, ENT_QUOTES);
echo "
";
echo html_entity_decode($str, ENT_NOQUOTES);
?>
The browser output of the code above will be:
Jane & 'Tarzan'
Jane & 'Tarzan'
Jane & 'Tarzan'
If you select "View source" in the browser window, you will see the following HTML:
Jane & 'Tarzan'
Jane & 'Tarzan'
Jane & 'Tarzan'
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Example 2
$str = "My name is Øyvind Åsane. I'm Norwegian";
echo html_entity_decode($str, ENT_QUOTES, "ISO-8859-1");
?>
The browser output of the code above will be:
My name is Øyvind Åsane. I'm Norwegian
If you select "View source" in the browser window, you will see the following HTML:
My name is Øyvind Åsane. I'm Norwegian
