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Decoding HTML Entities

<?php $orig = "I'll \"walk\" the <b>dog</b> now"; $a = htmlentities($orig); $b = html_entity_decode($a); echo $a; // I'll &quot;walk&quot; the <b&gt;dog</b&gt; now echo $b; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now // For users prior to PHP 4.3.0 you may do this: function unhtmlentities ($string) { $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES); $trans_tbl = array_flip ($trans_tbl); return strtr ($string, $trans_tbl); } $c = unhtmlentities($a); echo $c; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now ?>