Php html decode special characters

[PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8]

htmlspecialchars_decode Convert special HTML entities back to characters

Description

htmlspecialchars_decode[string $string, int $flags = ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401]: string

The converted entities are: &, " [when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set], ' [when ENT_QUOTES is set], < and >.

Parameters

string

The string to decode.

flags

A bitmask of one or more of the following flags, which specify how to handle quotes and which document type to use. The default is ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401.

Available flags constantsConstant NameDescription
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_SUBSTITUTE Replace invalid code unit sequences with a Unicode Replacement Character U+FFFD [UTF-8] or � [otherwise] instead of returning an empty string.
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.

Return Values

Returns the decoded string.

Changelog

VersionDescription
8.1.0 flags changed from ENT_COMPAT to ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401.

Examples

Example #1 A htmlspecialchars_decode[] example

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