In answer to "laurynas dot butkus at gmail dot com" and "romans@void.lv" and their great code2utf-function I added the functionality for entries between [128, 160[ that are not ASCii, but equal for all major western encodings like ISO8859-X and UTF-8 that has been mentioned before.
Now, the following function should in fact convert any number (table-entry) into an UTF-8-character. Thus, the return-value code2utf( <number> ) equals the character that is represented by the XML-entity &#<number>; (exceptions: #129, #141, #143, #144, #157).
To give an example, the function may be useful for creating a UTF-8-compatible html_entity_decode-function or determining the entry-position of UTF-8-characters in order to find the correct entity-replacement or similar.
function code2utf($number)
{
if ($number < 0)
return FALSE;
if ($number < 128)
return chr($number);
// Removing / Replacing Windows Illegals Characters
if ($number < 160)
{
if ($number==128) $number=8364;
elseif ($number==129) $number=160; // (Rayo:) #129 using no relevant sign, thus, mapped to the saved-space #160
elseif ($number==130) $number=8218;
elseif ($number==131) $number=402;
elseif ($number==132) $number=8222;
elseif ($number==133) $number=8230;
elseif ($number==134) $number=8224;
elseif ($number==135) $number=8225;
elseif ($number==136) $number=710;
elseif ($number==137) $number=8240;
elseif ($number==138) $number=352;
elseif ($number==139) $number=8249;
elseif ($number==140) $number=338;
elseif ($number==141) $number=160; // (Rayo:) #129 using no relevant sign, thus, mapped to the saved-space #160
elseif ($number==142) $number=381;
elseif ($number==143) $number=160; // (Rayo:) #129 using no relevant sign, thus, mapped to the saved-space #160
elseif ($number==144) $number=160; // (Rayo:) #129 using no relevant sign, thus, mapped to the saved-space #160
elseif ($number==145) $number=8216;
elseif ($number==146) $number=8217;
elseif ($number==147) $number=8220;
elseif ($number==148) $number=8221;
elseif ($number==149) $number=8226;
elseif ($number==150) $number=8211;
elseif ($number==151) $number=8212;
elseif ($number==152) $number=732;
elseif ($number==153) $number=8482;
elseif ($number==154) $number=353;
elseif ($number==155) $number=8250;
elseif ($number==156) $number=339;
elseif ($number==157) $number=160; // (Rayo:) #129 using no relevant sign, thus, mapped to the saved-space #160
elseif ($number==158) $number=382;
elseif ($number==159) $number=376;
} //if
if ($number < 2048)
return chr(($number >> 6) + 192) . chr(($number & 63) + 128);
if ($number < 65536)
return chr(($number >> 12) + 224) . chr((($number >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($number & 63) + 128);
if ($number < 2097152)
return chr(($number >> 18) + 240) . chr((($number >> 12) & 63) + 128) . chr((($number >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($number & 63) + 128);
return FALSE;
} //code2utf()
html_entity_decode
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)
html_entity_decode — Konvertiert alle benannten HTML-Zeichen in ihre entsprechenden Ursprungszeichen
Beschreibung
$string
[, int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401
[, string $encoding = 'UTF-8'
]] )
html_entity_decode() ist das Gegenstück zu
htmlentities(), welches alle HTML-Entities
innerhalb von string in ihre entsprechenden
Ursprungszeichen zurückwandelt.
Parameter-Liste
-
string -
Die Eingabezeichenkette.
-
flags -
Eine Bitmaske von einem oder mehreren der folgenden Flags, die die Behandlung von Anführungszeichen, sowie den zu nutzenden Dokumententyp festlegen. Der Standardwert ist ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401.
Verfügbare flags-KonstantenKonstantenname Beschreibung ENT_COMPATKonvertiert doppelte Anführungszeichen und lässt einfache Anführungszeichen unberührt. ENT_QUOTESKonvertiert sowohl doppelte als auch einfache Anführungszeichen. ENT_NOQUOTESLässt sowohl doppelte als auch einfache Anführungszeichen unberührt. ENT_HTML401Behandle Code als HTML 4.01. ENT_XML1Behandle Code als XML 1. ENT_XHTMLBehandle Code als XHTML. ENT_HTML5Behandle Code als HTML 5. -
encoding -
Zu verwendende Zeichenkodierung. Standardwert ist ISO-8859-1 in PHP Versionen vor 5.4.0 und UTF-8 in PHP 5.4.0 und neuer.
Die folgenden Zeichensätze werden mit PHP 4.3.0 und höher unterstützt:
Unterstützte Zeichensätze Zeichensatz Alias Beschreibung ISO-8859-1 ISO8859-1 Westeuropäisch, Latin-1 ISO-8859-15 ISO8859-15 Westeuropäisch, Latin-9. Enthält das Euro-Zeichen sowie französische und finnische Buchstaben, die in Latin-1(ISO-8859-1) fehlen. UTF-8 ASCII-kompatibles Multi-Byte 8-Bit Unicode. cp866 ibm866, 866 DOS-spezifischer Kyrillischer Zeichensatz. Dieser Zeichensatz wird ab PHP Version 4.3.2 unterstützt. cp1251 Windows-1251, win-1251, 1251 Windows-spezifischer Kyrillischer Zeichensatz. Dieser Zeichensatz wird ab PHP Version 4.3.2 unterstützt. cp1252 Windows-1252, 1252 Windows spezifischer Zeichensatz für westeuropäische Sprachen. KOI8-R koi8-ru, koi8r Russisch. Dieser Zeichensatz wird ab PHP Version 4.3.2 unterstützt. BIG5 950 Traditionelles Chinesisch, hauptsächlich in Taiwan verwendet. GB2312 936 Vereinfachtes Chinesisch, nationaler Standard-Zeichensatz. BIG5-HKSCS Big5 mit Hongkong-spezifischen Erweiterungen; traditionelles Chinesisch. Shift_JIS SJIS, 932 Japanisch EUC-JP EUCJP Japanisch Hinweis: Weitere Zeichensätze sind nicht implementiert, an ihrer Stelle wird ISO-8859-1 verwendet.
Rückgabewerte
Gibt die dekodierte Zeichenkette zurück.
Changelog
| Version | Beschreibung |
|---|---|
| 5.4.0 | Die Standardkodierung wurde von ISO-8859-1 auf UTF-8 geändert. |
| 5.4.0 |
Die Optionen ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1,
ENT_XHTML und ENT_HTML5 wurden
hinzugefügt.
|
| 5.0.0 | Die Unterstützung für Multibyte-Kodierungen wurde hinzugefügt. |
Beispiele
Beispiel #1 Dekodieren benannter HTML-Zeichen
<?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 $b; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now
?>
Anmerkungen
Hinweis:
Sie wundern sich vielleicht, warum trim(html_entity_decode(' ')); den String nicht zu einem leeren Sting reduziert. Der Grund dafür ist, dass ' ' in der Standard-Kodierung nicht dem Zeichen mit ASCII-Code 32 entspricht (dieses wird von trim() entfernt), sondern dem Zeichen mit ASCII-Code 160 (0xa0).
Siehe auch
- htmlentities() - Wandelt alle geeigneten Zeichen in entsprechende HTML-Codes um
- htmlspecialchars() - Wandelt Sonderzeichen in HTML-Codes um
- get_html_translation_table() - Gibt die Umwandlungs-Tabelle zurück, die von htmlspecialchars und htmlentities verwendet wird
- urldecode() - Dekodiert eine URL-kodierte Zeichenkette
html_entity_decode
13-Jul-2007 06:39
15-May-2007 01:24
In PHP4 html_entity_decode() is not working well with UTF-8 spitting: "Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()!".
This is working solution combining several workarounds:
<?php
function html_entity_decode_utf8($string)
{
static $trans_tbl;
// replace numeric entities
$string = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'code2utf(hexdec("\\1"))', $string);
$string = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'code2utf(\\1)', $string);
// replace literal entities
if (!isset($trans_tbl))
{
$trans_tbl = array();
foreach (get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES) as $val=>$key)
$trans_tbl[$key] = utf8_encode($val);
}
return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);
}
// Returns the utf string corresponding to the unicode value (from php.net, courtesy - romans@void.lv)
function code2utf($num)
{
if ($num < 128) return chr($num);
if ($num < 2048) return chr(($num >> 6) + 192) . chr(($num & 63) + 128);
if ($num < 65536) return chr(($num >> 12) + 224) . chr((($num >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128);
if ($num < 2097152) return chr(($num >> 18) + 240) . chr((($num >> 12) & 63) + 128) . chr((($num >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128);
return '';
}
?>
13-May-2007 05:29
Hi!
The main problem with the UTF-8 strings if You try to unhtmlentities them is that the get_html_translation_table() gives back a non-UTF8 conversion table. So the idea is to get the translation table and then translate the needed non-UTF8 strings to UTF8...
I have this code working, actually this code is the one sent by 'daviscabral', just with an extra foreach in it ( http://hu.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php#68479 )
And the code is:
<?
function unhtmlentitiesUtf8($string) {
// replace numeric entities
$string = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $string);
$string = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr("\\1")', $string);
// replace literal entities
$trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
$trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);
// changing translation table to UTF-8
foreach( $trans_tbl as $key => $value ) {
$trans_tbl[$key] = iconv( 'ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', $value );
}
return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);
}
?>
If You need this in production code, I suggest to get the $trans_tbl into a common-includable file I think it should be faster. ( Maybe the easiest way to do this is to write after the translation: die(var_export($trans_tbl, true)); and copy&paste the source of the displaying text. And don't forget to check if the browser uses UTF8 codepage! ;)
10-Jan-2007 02:11
I made my own fix to allow numerical entities in utf8 in php4...
<?
function utf8_replaceEntity($result){
$value = (int)$result[1];
$string = '';
$len = round(pow($value,1/8));
for($i=$len;$i>0;$i--){
$part = ($value & (255>>2)) | pow(2,7);
if ( $i == 1 ) $part |= 255<<(8-$len);
$string = chr($part) . $string;
$value >>= 6;
}
return $string;
}
function utf8_html_entity_decode($string){
return preg_replace_callback(
'/&#([0-9]+);/u',
'utf8_replaceEntity',
$string
);
}
$string = '’‘ – “ ”'
.' ć ń ř'
;
$string = utf8_html_entity_decode($string,null,'UTF-8');
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
echo '<li>'.$string;
?>
28-Dec-2006 09:26
@ romekt:
iconv could not be implemented, so alternatively use utf8_decode and utf8_encode to solve the utf-8 / iso-8859-1 problem
04-Nov-2006 05:27
The decipherment does the character encoded by the escape function of JavaScript.
When the multi byte is used on the page, it is effective.
javascript escape('aaああaa') ..... 'aa%u3042%u3042aa'
php jsEscape_decode('aa%u3042%u3042aa')..'aaああaa'
<?
function jsEscape_decode($jsEscaped,$outCharCode='SJIS'){
$arrMojis = explode("%u",$jsEscaped);
for ($i = 1;$i < count($arrMojis);$i++){
$c = substr($arrMojis[$i],0,4);
$cc = mb_convert_encoding(pack('H*',$c),$outCharCode,'UTF-16');
$arrMojis[$i] = substr_replace($arrMojis[$i],$cc,0,4);
}
return implode('',$arrMojis);
}
?>
01-Sep-2006 11:15
here's a simple workaround for the UTF-8 support problem
$var=iconv("UTF-8","ISO-8859-1",$var);
$var=html_entity_decode($var, ENT_QUOTES, 'ISO-8859-1');
$var=iconv("ISO-8859-1","UTF-8",$var);
01-Aug-2006 12:09
Combining the suggestions by buraks78 at gmail dot com, gaui at gaui dot is, daniel at brightbyte dot de, and the version in PEAR_PHP_Compat, I come to the following, which should work in an UTF-8 environment, with PHP < or > 4.3:
<?php
function decode_entities($text, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT) {
if (function_exists('html_entity_decode')) {
$text = html_entity_decode($text, $quote_style, 'ISO-8859-1'); // NOTE: UTF-8 does not work!
}
else {
$trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, $quote_style);
$trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);
$text = strtr($text, $trans_tbl);
}
$text = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $text);
$text = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr("\\1")', $text);
return $text;
}
?>
Note that I omitted the line
$trans_table['''] = "'";
as it would override the quote_style setting and thus lead to unexpected results for quote_styles ENT_NOQUOTES and ENT_COMPAT.
29-Jul-2006 06:44
Here is the ultimate functions to convert HTML entities to UTF-8 :
The main function is htmlentities2utf8
Others are helper functions
function chr_utf8($code)
{
if ($code < 0) return false;
elseif ($code < 128) return chr($code);
elseif ($code < 160) // Remove Windows Illegals Cars
{
if ($code==128) $code=8364;
elseif ($code==129) $code=160; // not affected
elseif ($code==130) $code=8218;
elseif ($code==131) $code=402;
elseif ($code==132) $code=8222;
elseif ($code==133) $code=8230;
elseif ($code==134) $code=8224;
elseif ($code==135) $code=8225;
elseif ($code==136) $code=710;
elseif ($code==137) $code=8240;
elseif ($code==138) $code=352;
elseif ($code==139) $code=8249;
elseif ($code==140) $code=338;
elseif ($code==141) $code=160; // not affected
elseif ($code==142) $code=381;
elseif ($code==143) $code=160; // not affected
elseif ($code==144) $code=160; // not affected
elseif ($code==145) $code=8216;
elseif ($code==146) $code=8217;
elseif ($code==147) $code=8220;
elseif ($code==148) $code=8221;
elseif ($code==149) $code=8226;
elseif ($code==150) $code=8211;
elseif ($code==151) $code=8212;
elseif ($code==152) $code=732;
elseif ($code==153) $code=8482;
elseif ($code==154) $code=353;
elseif ($code==155) $code=8250;
elseif ($code==156) $code=339;
elseif ($code==157) $code=160; // not affected
elseif ($code==158) $code=382;
elseif ($code==159) $code=376;
}
if ($code < 2048) return chr(192 | ($code >> 6)) . chr(128 | ($code & 63));
elseif ($code < 65536) return chr(224 | ($code >> 12)) . chr(128 | (($code >> 6) & 63)) . chr(128 | ($code & 63));
else return chr(240 | ($code >> 18)) . chr(128 | (($code >> 12) & 63)) . chr(128 | (($code >> 6) & 63)) . chr(128 | ($code & 63));
}
// Callback for preg_replace_callback('~&(#(x?))?([^;]+);~', 'html_entity_replace', $str);
function html_entity_replace($matches)
{
if ($matches[2])
{
return chr_utf8(hexdec($matches[3]));
} elseif ($matches[1])
{
return chr_utf8($matches[3]);
}
switch ($matches[3])
{
case "nbsp": return chr_utf8(160);
case "iexcl": return chr_utf8(161);
case "cent": return chr_utf8(162);
case "pound": return chr_utf8(163);
case "curren": return chr_utf8(164);
case "yen": return chr_utf8(165);
//... etc with all named HTML entities
}
return false;
}
function htmlentities2utf8 ($string) // because of the html_entity_decode() bug with UTF-8
{
$string = preg_replace_callback('~&(#(x?))?([^;]+);~', 'html_entity_replace', $string);
return $string;
}
23-Dec-2005 05:33
I shortened the function repace_num_entity a bit to make more understandable and clean. Maybe now someone sees the problem it possibly has... (as mentioned below)
<?php
function replace_num_entity($ord) {
$ord = $ord[1];
if (preg_match('/^x([0-9a-f]+)$/i', $ord, $match)) $ord = hexdec($match[1]);
else $ord = intval($ord);
$no_bytes = 0;
$byte = array();
if ($ord < 128) return chr($ord);
if ($ord < 2048) $no_bytes = 2;
else if ($ord < 65536) $no_bytes = 3;
else if ($ord < 1114112) $no_bytes = 4;
else return;
switch($no_bytes) {
case 2: $prefix = array(31, 192); break;
case 3: $prefix = array(15, 224); break;
case 4: $prefix = array(7, 240);
}
for ($i=0; $i < $no_bytes; ++$i)
$byte[$no_bytes-$i-1] = (($ord & (63 * pow(2,6*$i))) / pow(2,6*$i)) & 63 | 128;
$byte[0] = ($byte[0] & $prefix[0]) | $prefix[1];
$ret = '';
for ($i=0; $i < $no_bytes; ++$i) $ret .= chr($byte[$i]);
return $ret;
}
?>
08-Oct-2005 10:15
If you want to decode NCRs to utf-8 use this function instead of chr().
function utf8_chr($code)
{
if($code<128) return chr($code);
else if($code<2048) return chr(($code>>6)+192).chr(($code&63)+128);
else if($code<65536) return chr(($code>>12)+224).chr((($code>>6)&63)+128).chr(($code&63)+128);
else if($code<2097152) return chr($code>>18+240).chr((($code>>12)&63)+128)
.chr(($code>>6)&63+128).chr($code&63+128));
}
26-Sep-2005 02:22
I've been using the great replace_num_entity function posted below. But there seems to be some problems with the 128 to 160 characters range. Ie, try:
<?php header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); ?>
<html><body>
<?php
for($x=128; $x<161; $x++) {
echo('&#' . $x . '; -- ' . preg_replace_callback('/&#([0-9a-fx]+);/mi', 'replace_num_entity', '&#' . $x . ';') . '</br>');
}
?>
</body></html>
I really dont know the reason for this (since according to UTF-8 specs the function should have worked) but I did a modified version of the function to address this. Hope it helps.
function replace_num_entity($ord)
{
$ord = $ord[1];
if (preg_match('/^x([0-9a-f]+)$/i', $ord, $match))
{
$ord = hexdec($match[1]);
}
else
{
$ord = intval($ord);
}
$no_bytes = 0;
$byte = array();
if($ord == 128) {
return chr(226).chr(130).chr(172);
} elseif($ord == 129) {
return chr(239).chr(191).chr(189);
} elseif($ord == 130) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(154);
} elseif($ord == 131) {
return chr(198).chr(146);
} elseif($ord == 132) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(158);
} elseif($ord == 133) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(166);
} elseif($ord == 134) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(160);
} elseif($ord == 135) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(161);
} elseif($ord == 136) {
return chr(203).chr(134);
} elseif($ord == 137) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(176);
} elseif($ord == 138) {
return chr(197).chr(160);
} elseif($ord == 139) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(185);
} elseif($ord == 140) {
return chr(197).chr(146);
} elseif($ord == 141) {
return chr(239).chr(191).chr(189);
} elseif($ord == 142) {
return chr(197).chr(189);
} elseif($ord == 143) {
return chr(239).chr(191).chr(189);
} elseif($ord == 144) {
return chr(239).chr(191).chr(189);
} elseif($ord == 145) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(152);
} elseif($ord == 146) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(153);
} elseif($ord == 147) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(156);
} elseif($ord == 148) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(157);
} elseif($ord == 149) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(162);
} elseif($ord == 150) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(147);
} elseif($ord == 151) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(148);
} elseif($ord == 152) {
return chr(203).chr(156);
} elseif($ord == 153) {
return chr(226).chr(132).chr(162);
} elseif($ord == 154) {
return chr(197).chr(161);
} elseif($ord == 155) {
return chr(226).chr(128).chr(186);
} elseif($ord == 156) {
return chr(197).chr(147);
} elseif($ord == 157) {
return chr(239).chr(191).chr(189);
} elseif($ord == 158) {
return chr(197).chr(190);
} elseif($ord == 159) {
return chr(197).chr(184);
} elseif($ord == 160) {
return chr(194).chr(160);
}
if ($ord < 128)
{
return chr($ord);
}
elseif ($ord < 2048)
{
$no_bytes = 2;
}
elseif ($ord < 65536)
{
$no_bytes = 3;
}
elseif ($ord < 1114112)
{
$no_bytes = 4;
}
else
{
return;
}
switch($no_bytes)
{
case 2:
{
$prefix = array(31, 192);
break;
}
case 3:
{
$prefix = array(15, 224);
break;
}
case 4:
{
$prefix = array(7, 240);
}
}
for ($i = 0; $i < $no_bytes; $i++)
{
$byte[$no_bytes - $i - 1] = (($ord & (63 * pow(2, 6 * $i))) / pow(2, 6 * $i)) & 63 | 128;
}
$byte[0] = ($byte[0] & $prefix[0]) | $prefix[1];
$ret = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < $no_bytes; $i++)
{
$ret .= chr($byte[$i]);
}
return $ret;
}
20-Jul-2005 12:43
Note that
<?php
echo urlencode(html_entity_decode(" "));
?>
will output "%A0" instead of "+".
05-Jul-2005 02:15
if( !function_exists( 'html_entity_decode' ) )
{
function html_entity_decode( $given_html, $quote_style = ENT_QUOTES ) {
$trans_table = array_flip(get_html_translation_table( HTML_SPECIALCHARS, $quote_style ));
$trans_table['''] = "'";
return ( strtr( $given_html, $trans_table ) );
}
}
08-Apr-2005 03:40
To convert html entities into unicode characters, use the following:
$trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
foreach($trans_tbl as $k => $v)
{
$ttr[$v] = utf8_encode($k);
}
$text = strtr($text, $ttr);
18-Mar-2005 09:37
Quick & dirty code that translates numeric entities to UTF-8.
<?php
function replace_num_entity($ord)
{
$ord = $ord[1];
if (preg_match('/^x([0-9a-f]+)$/i', $ord, $match))
{
$ord = hexdec($match[1]);
}
else
{
$ord = intval($ord);
}
$no_bytes = 0;
$byte = array();
if ($ord < 128)
{
return chr($ord);
}
elseif ($ord < 2048)
{
$no_bytes = 2;
}
elseif ($ord < 65536)
{
$no_bytes = 3;
}
elseif ($ord < 1114112)
{
$no_bytes = 4;
}
else
{
return;
}
switch($no_bytes)
{
case 2:
{
$prefix = array(31, 192);
break;
}
case 3:
{
$prefix = array(15, 224);
break;
}
case 4:
{
$prefix = array(7, 240);
}
}
for ($i = 0; $i < $no_bytes; $i++)
{
$byte[$no_bytes - $i - 1] = (($ord & (63 * pow(2, 6 * $i))) / pow(2, 6 * $i)) & 63 | 128;
}
$byte[0] = ($byte[0] & $prefix[0]) | $prefix[1];
$ret = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < $no_bytes; $i++)
{
$ret .= chr($byte[$i]);
}
return $ret;
}
$test = 'This is a čא test'';
echo $test . "<br />\n";
echo preg_replace_callback('/&#([0-9a-fx]+);/mi', 'replace_num_entity', $test);
?>
29-Jan-2005 04:33
Passing NULL or FALSE as a string will generate a '500 Internal Server Error' (or break the script when inside a function).
So always test your string first before passing it to html_entity_decode().
14-Nov-2004 03:12
This function seems to have to have two limitations (at least in PHP 4.3.8):
a) it does not work with multibyte character codings, such as UTF-8
b) it does not decode numeric entity references
a) can be solved by using iconv to convert to ISO-8859-1, then decoding the entities, than convert to UTF-8 again. But that's quite ugly and detroys all characters not present in Latin-1.
b) can be solved rather nicely using the following code:
<?php
function decode_entities($text) {
$text= html_entity_decode($text,ENT_QUOTES,"ISO-8859-1"); #NOTE: UTF-8 does not work!
$text= preg_replace('/&#(\d+);/me',"chr(\\1)",$text); #decimal notation
$text= preg_replace('/&#x([a-f0-9]+);/mei',"chr(0x\\1)",$text); #hex notation
return $text;
}
?>
HTH
14-Sep-2004 09:57
This functionality is now implemented in the PEAR package PHP_Compat.
More information about using this function without upgrading your version of PHP can be found on the below link:
http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Compat