PHP html_entity_decode()

‘html_entity_decode()’ is the opposite of ‘htmlentities()’ in that it converts HTML entities in the string to their corresponding characters.

Syntax

html_entity_decode(str, flags, character-set)

• string: - Specifies the string to decode
• flags: - Specifies how to handle quotes and which document type to use.
• character-set: These are optional strings that specify which character-set to use.

Example

The below example takes value for $orig and assigns it to $a using htmlentities(). Then it decodes it using html_entity_decode() and assigns it to $b. It then shows values for both $a and $b:

<?php
$orig = "dog";
$a = htmlentities($orig);
$b = html_entity_decode($a);
echo $a;
echo "\n";
echo $b;
?>

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Output

The above example generates the following output:

dog
dog

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This example converts double and single quotes:

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