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Description PHP

Convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters i.e. " => "

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  1. <?php
  2. $orig = "I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now";
  3.  
  4. $a = htmlentities($orig);
  6. echo $a; // I'll &quot;walk&quot; the &lt;b&gt;dog&lt;/b&gt; now
  7.  
  8. echo $b; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now
  9.  
  10. // For users prior to PHP 4.3.0 you may do this:
  11.  
  12. function unhtmlentities ($string) {
  13.     $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES);
  14.  
  15.     $trans_tbl = array_flip ($trans_tbl);
  16.  
  17.     return strtr ($string, $trans_tbl);
  18. }
  19.  
  20. $c = unhtmlentities($a);
  21.  
  22. echo $c; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now
  23.  
  24. ?>
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Added by JC on 14th November, 2007

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