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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,flags,character-set]
Parameter Values
| string | Required. Specifies the string to decode |
| flags | Optional. Specifies how to handle quotes and which document type to use. The available quote styles are:
Additional flags for specifying the used doctype:
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| character-set | Optional. A string that specifies which character-set to use. Allowed values are:
Note: Unrecognized character-sets will be ignored and replaced by ISO-8859-1 in versions prior to PHP 5.4. As of PHP 5.4, it will be ignored an replaced by UTF-8. |
Technical Details
| Returns the converted string |
| 4.3.0+ |
| PHP 5.6 - Changed the default value for the character-set parameter to the value of the default charset [in configuration]. PHP 5.4 - Changed the default value for the character-set parameter to UTF-8. PHP 5.4 - Added ENT_HTML401, ENT_HTML5, ENT_XML1 and ENT_XHTML. PHP 5.0 - Added support for multi-byte encodings |
More Examples
Example
Convert some HTML entities to characters:
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Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
The browser output of the code above will be:
Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
Example
Convert some HTML entities to characters, using the Western European character-set:
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My name is Øyvind Åsane. I'm Norwegian.
The browser output of the code above will be:
My name is Øyvind Åsane. I'm Norwegian.
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