PHP : html_entity_decode() function
Description
The html_entity_decode() function is used to convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters.
Version
(PHP 4 and above)
Syntax
html_entity_decode(input_string, quote_style, charset )
Name | Description | Required / Optional |
Type |
---|---|---|---|
input_string | The string to be converted. | Required | String |
quote_style | Encoding single and double quote. ENT_COMPAT : Convert double quotes and leave single quotes unchanged. ENT_COMPAT is the default setting ENT_QUOTES : Converts both single and double quotes. ENT_NOQUOTES: Converts neither single nor double quotes. |
Optional | Integer |
charset | Refers the character set to be used. List of character set. ISO-8859-1 : Western European, Latin-1 [default character set]. ISO-8859-15 : Western European, Latin-9. UTF-8 : ASCII compatible multi-byte 8-bit Unicode. cp866 : DOS-specific Cyrillic charset. cp1251 : Windows-specific Cyrillic charset. cp1252 : Windows-specific charset for Western European. KOI8-R : Russian. BIG5 : Traditional Chinese. GB2312 : Simplified Chinese. BIG5-HKSCS : Big5 with Hong Kong extensions. Shift_JIS : Japanese. EUC-JP : Japanese. |
Optional | String |
Return values:
The decoded string.
Value Type: String.
Pictorial Presentation
Example:
<?php
$string = "You are learning <b>PHP</b> at <a href='index.php'>w3resource.com</a>";
$p1 = htmlentities($string);
$p2 = html_entity_decode($p1);
echo $p1.'<br/>';
echo $p2;
?>
Output:
You are learning <b>PHP</b> at <a href='index.php'>w3resource.com</a> You are learning PHP at w3resource.com
View the example in the browser
See also
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PHP - How do I implement a callback in PHP?
The manual uses the terms "callback" and "callable" interchangeably, however, "callback" traditionally refers to a string or array value that acts like a function pointer, referencing a function or class method for future invocation. This has allowed some elements of functional programming since PHP 4. The flavors are:
$cb1 = 'someGlobalFunction'; $cb2 = ['ClassName', 'someStaticMethod']; $cb3 = [$object, 'somePublicMethod']; // this syntax is callable since PHP 5.2.3 but a string containing it // cannot be called directly $cb2 = 'ClassName::someStaticMethod'; $cb2(); // fatal error // legacy syntax for PHP 4 $cb3 = array(&$object, 'somePublicMethod');
This is a safe way to use callable values in general:
if (is_callable($cb2)) { // Autoloading will be invoked to load the class "ClassName" if it's not // yet defined, and PHP will check that the class has a method // "someStaticMethod". Note that is_callable() will NOT verify that the // method can safely be executed in static context. $returnValue = call_user_func($cb2, $arg1, $arg2); }
Modern PHP versions allow the first three formats above to be invoked directly as $cb(). call_user_func and call_user_func_array support all the above.
Notes/Caveats:
- If the function/class is namespaced, the string must contain the fully-qualified name. E.g. ['Vendor\Package\Foo', 'method']
- call_user_func does not support passing non-objects by reference, so you can either use call_user_func_array or, in later PHP versions, save the callback to a var and use the direct syntax: $cb();
- Objects with an __invoke() method (including anonymous functions) fall under the category "callable" and can be used the same way, but I personally don't associate these with the legacy "callback" term.
- The legacy create_function() creates a global function and returns its name. It's a wrapper for eval() and anonymous functions should be used instead.
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