Php html entity decode
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PHP function html_entity_decode
This function converts HTML entities to characters. Create HTML entities by using htmlentities function.
Syntax html_entity_decode
- string: string input for decode.
- quotestyle:
- ENT_COMPAT: Will convert double-quotes and leave single-quotes alone.
- ENT_QUOTES: Will convert both double and single quotes.
- ENT_NOQUOTES: Will leave both double and single quotes unconverted.
- ENT_HTML401: Handle code as HTML 4.01.
- ENT_XML1: Handle code as XML 1.
- ENT_XHTML: Handle code as XHTML.
- ENT_HTML5: Handle code as HTML 5.
- characterset:
- 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
html_entity_decode(string,quotestyle,characterset);
Example 1: Create HTML entities use htmlentities() function
<?php $str = "<b>Love</b> is >= not lost. \"love\" is just one of them"; echo htmlentities($str); ?>
Output: HTML source view
<b>Love</b> is >= not lost. "love" is just one of them
Example 2
<?php $strentities = "<b>Love</b> is >= not lost. "love" is just one of them"; echo html_entity_decode($strentities); ?>
Output
Love is >= not lost. "love" is just one of them
Example 3
<?php $strentities = "<b>Love</b> is >= not lost. "love" is just one of 'them'"; echo html_entity_decode($strentities); echo '<br/>'; echo html_entity_decode($strentities,ENT_QUOTES); echo '<br/>'; echo html_entity_decode($strentities,ENT_NOQUOTES); echo '<br/>'; echo html_entity_decode($strentities,ENT_COMPAT); ?>
Output
Love is >= not lost. "love" is just one of 'them' Love is >= not lost. "love" is just one of 'them' Love is >= not lost. "love" is just one of 'them' Love is >= not lost. "love" is just one of 'them'
Output: HTML source
<b>Love</b> is >= not lost. "love" is just one of 'them'<br/> <b>Love</b> is >= not lost. "love" is just one of 'them'<br/> <b>Love</b> is >= not lost. "love" is just one of 'them'<br/> <b>Love</b> is >= not lost. "love" is just one of 'them'
