PHP html_entity_decode is not displaying HTML text properly

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I am not sure what i am doing wrong and being just a starter in PHP i am not sure if my approach is correct or not. I am using TinyMCE Editor to store some text in database and will display this text in Browser in my WordPress powered site.

This is the text actually getting stored in database

&lt;strong&gt;Well we should think about how to see this editor&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Its Good in nature&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Well Matured&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Easy to use.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=\&quot;color: #ff0000;\&quot;&gt;We should use this editor every now and than&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style=\&quot;color: #333333;\&quot;&gt;©&lt;/span&gt;

This is going to be a heading to test it
&lt;h1 style=\&quot;text-align: right;\&quot;&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;

Sorry for such encoded text, i am using PHP's html_entity_decode method to send that text back to browser to get displayed. This is my function call

html_entity_decode($event->Description,ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8')

HTML Output

<font color="#cc0000">'<strong>Well we should think about how to see this editor</strong>
 <ul> 
  <li>Its Good in nature</li> 
  <li>Well Matured</li> 
  <li>Easy to use.</li> 
  </ul>
  <strong>
  <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We should use this editor every now and than</span></strong> 
  <span style=\"color: #333333;\">©</span> 
  This is going to be a heading to test it 
  <h1 style=\"text-align: right;\"></h1>'</font>

Everything seems to be in place except the colors information.Colors are not working in the generated HTML output

Can anyone help me to understand where i am doing wrong seems like either i am not decoding it properly or some other thing i am missing which is sending wrong HTML from my php function call

Do not store with HTML entities in the database (remove the encoding and the decoding to/from html entities) - you do not need that. Apart from that it can not said much what actually has done wrong additionally, maybe something with input slashes, but that depends on processing together with Wordpress and some more concrete code. — hakre
– hakre, Commented Dec 2, 2012 at 12:41
@hakre:for storing i am not doing any decoding,since its being added by admin so simple i am doing esc_attr($_POST["data"]) and than i am passing this data to the SQL query, i was doing decoding since without using html_entity_decode my data is being sent as string and HTML tags are not being parsed by browser properly — Umesh Awasthi
– Umesh Awasthi, Commented Dec 2, 2012 at 12:56

Sawant · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-02 11:35:49Z

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This is probably how the data is being encoded to be saved:

htmlentities( addslashes($string) );

Now to get the exact output back, you need to remove the slashes, with stripslashes function:

stripslashes( html_entity_decode($event->Description, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') );

answered Dec 2, 2012 at 11:35

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Umesh Awasthi Over a year ago

i am not sure if Wordpress or PHP is doing anything extra behind the scene since i am adding those data through Admin panel so this is what i am doing esc_attr($_POST["data"]), once i got the data i am passing it to SQL query to save it in database.

Sawant Over a year ago

I am not sure about that either, but did you try the statement with stripslashes()?

Felipe Alameda A · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-02 07:36:12Z

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At first sight I see double quotes are escaped in HTML code. They shouldn't. Try removing backslashes. Like this:

  <span style="color: #ff0000">We should use this editor every now and than</span></strong> 
  <span style="color: #333333">©</span>

Try html_entity_decode() with ENT_NOQUOTES.

edited Dec 2, 2012 at 7:36

answered Dec 2, 2012 at 7:31

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Umesh Awasthi Over a year ago

Thanks for the quick reply,how ever i tried your suggestions seems not working same issue about escaping

Felipe Alameda A Over a year ago

@Umesh Have you tried not decoding at all, removing html_entity_decode()?

Umesh Awasthi Over a year ago

Yes, in that case nothing is being displayed correctly all HTML as a string

Felipe Alameda A Over a year ago

Got it. Does not display the html tags correctly. Well, str_replace('\"', '"', $output) after html_entity_decode() might not be the best solution, but can't figure out any other option at this moment.

Umesh Awasthi Over a year ago

Yes that solution is in my mind but since i am just a starter in PHP so looking for other options or issue with my code

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