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Decode HTML Special Entities (Rated 5)

Description:

Convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters.

e.g. & amp; (minus the space) will be converted to &

Code starts here

<?PHP

function decodeHTML($string) {
$string = strtr($string, array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES)));
$string = preg_replace("/&#([0-9]+);/me", "chr('\\1')", $string);
return $string;
}

?>

Last Edited: November 12, 2005, 12:17 pm

Submitted by Devscripts on 12-11-2005 12:17

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User Contributed Comments

On 29-04-2003 13:17 Devscripts said:

This is very very useful for when you are grabbing a news feed of someones site, as they will be using special entities which might not get converted.

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