html_entity_decode not decoding ASCII

Question

Heres my code:

$string = '&#73&#116';
$string = html_entity_decode($string);
echo $string;

It should be echoing "It", but its just echoing the ASCII codes. Am I using the wrong function? I also tried htmlspecialchars_decode and it changes nothing.

BoltClock · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-05 20:39:37Z

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~~Those are not valid entities~~ Actually, they are valid in HTML 4 (and I suppose HTML5 too), but in this case the entities need to be semicolon-terminated for PHP to recognize them:

$string = '&#73;&#116;';

htmlspecialchars_decode() only decodes <, >, &, ' and " (and the last two depend on the quotes flag).

edited Feb 5, 2011 at 20:39

answered Feb 5, 2011 at 20:20

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scarhand Over a year ago

I've tried html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'ISO-8859-1') and html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES), neither of them work. The string is on my page using ISO-8859-1. I was using $string = html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'ISO-8859-1')

BoltClock Over a year ago

@scarhand: Have you tried it with the semicolons? It works for me.

scarhand Over a year ago

ahhhh! sorry bolt, the semicolons are the problem. i will explode and implode the string with a semicolon. thanks again!

scarhand Over a year ago

$string = preg_replace('/\&\#([0-9]+)/', '&#$1;', $string); =)

BoltClock Over a year ago

@scarhand: Yeah, I prefer the regex solution.

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