htmlspecialchars_decode() function in PHP

html_special_chars_decode() function is used to convert special HTML entities back to characters.

The following is the HTML entity that will be decoded -

• & becomes & (ampersand)

• "changes to" (double quotation mark)

• & #039; becomes ' (single quotation mark)

• ##& lt; becomes
• > becomes > (greater than)

Syntax

htmlspecialchars_decode(str,flags)

Parameters

• str - The string to decode

• flags - Specifies how quotes are handled and the document type to use.

• The following are quote styles -
  • ENT_COMPAT - Default. Decode only double quotes

  • ENT_QUOTES - Decode double and single quotes

  • ENT_NOQUOTES - Do not decode any quotes

• Additional flags for specifying the document type used -
  • ENT_HTML401 - Default. Process code as HTML 4.01

  ##ENT_HTML5 - Process code as HTML 5
  ENT_XML1 - Process code as XML 1
  ENT_XHTML - Process code as XHTML

Return

htmlspecialchars_decode () function returns the converted string .

The following is an example -

Example

Live demonstration

<?php
$s = "<p>this -> "keyword in programming language</p></p><p>";
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($s);
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($s, ENT_NOQUOTES);
?>

The following is the output -

Output

<p>this -> "keyword in programming language</p>
<p>this -> "keyword in programming language</p>

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