[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
.
flags
constantsENT_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
8.1.0 | flags changed from ENT_COMPAT to ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401 .
|
Examples
Example #1 A htmlspecialchars_decode[] example