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Decoding HTML Entities

Decoding HTML Entities

<?php 
$orig = "I'll \"walk\" the <b>dog</b> now"; 

$a = htmlentities($orig); 

$b = html_entity_decode($a); 

echo $a; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now 

echo $b; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now 


// For users prior to PHP 4.3.0 you may do this: 
function unhtmlentities ($string) 
{ 
    $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES); 
    $trans_tbl = array_flip ($trans_tbl); 
    return strtr ($string, $trans_tbl); 
} 

$c = unhtmlentities($a); 

echo $c; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now 

?>