PHP : html_entity_decode() function

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PHP: Convert HTML entities to their corresponding characters

The html_entity_decode() function is used to convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters.

Version

(PHP 4 and above)

Syntax

html_entity_decode(input_string, quote_style, charset )

Name	Description	Required / Optional	Type
input_string	The string to be converted.	Required	String
quote_style	Encoding single and double quote. ENT_COMPAT : Convert double quotes and leave single quotes unchanged. ENT_COMPAT is the default setting ENT_QUOTES : Converts both single and double quotes. ENT_NOQUOTES: Converts neither single nor double quotes.	Optional	Integer
charset	Refers the character set to be used. List of character set. ISO-8859-1 : Western European, Latin-1 [default character set]. ISO-8859-15 : Western European, Latin-9. 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. GB2312 : Simplified Chinese. BIG5-HKSCS : Big5 with Hong Kong extensions. Shift_JIS : Japanese. EUC-JP : Japanese.	Optional	String

Return values:

The decoded string.

Value Type: String.

Pictorial Presentation

php html_entity_decode function

Example:

<?php
$string = "You are learning <b>PHP</b> at <a href='index.php'>w3resource.com</a>";
$p1 = htmlentities($string);
$p2 = html_entity_decode($p1);
echo $p1.'<br/>'; 
echo $p2; 
?>

Output:

You are learning <b>PHP</b> at <a   href='index.php'>w3resource.com</a>
You are learning PHP at w3resource.com

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See also

PHP Function Reference

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