If you need something that converts &#[0-9]+ entities to UTF-8, this is simple and works:
<?php
/* Entity crap. /
$input = "Fovič";
$output = preg_replace_callback("/(&#[0-9]+;)/", function($m) { return mb_convert_encoding($m[1], "UTF-8", "HTML-ENTITIES"); }, $input);
/* Plain UTF-8. */
echo $output;
?>
html_entity_decode
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
html_entity_decode — Convertit les entités HTML à leurs caractères correspondant
Description
html_entity_decode(string
$string, int $flags = ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401, ?string $encoding = null): string
html_entity_decode() est la fonction contraire de
htmlentities() : elle convertit les entités HTML de
la chaîne string en leurs caractères correspondant.
De façon plus explicite, cette fonction décode toutes les entités (incluant les entités numériques) qui 1) sont nécessairement valides pour le type de document choisi - i.e., pour XML, cette fonction ne décode pas les entités nommées qui peuvent être définies dans une DTD - et 2) et dont le caractère ou les caractères sont dans le jeu de caractères codé avec l'encodage choisi et sont autorisés dans le type de document choisi. Toutes les autres entités sont laissées telle que.
Liste de paramètres
-
string -
La chaîne d'entrée.
-
flags -
Un masque d'un ou plusieurs drapeaux suivants, qui spécifient la façon dont doivent être gérés les guillemets et quel type de document doit être utilisé. Par défaut, c'est
ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401.Constantes disponibles pour flagsConstante Description ENT_COMPATConvertit les guillemets doubles et ignore les guillemets simples. ENT_QUOTESConvertit les guillemets doubles et les guillemets simples. ENT_NOQUOTESNe convertit aucun guillemet. ENT_SUBSTITUTERemplace les séquences de code invalide avec un caractère de remplacement Unicode U+FFFD (UTF-8) ou &#FFFD; (sinon) au lieu de retourner une chaîne vide. ENT_HTML401Gère le code comme étant du HTML 4.01. ENT_XML1Gère le code comme étant du XML 1. ENT_XHTMLGère le code comme étant du XHTML. ENT_HTML5Gère le code comme étant du HTML 5. -
encoding -
Un argument optionnel définissant l'encodage utilisé lors de la conversion des caractères.
Si omis, la valeur par défaut du paramètre
encodingest la valeur de l'option de configuration default_charset.Malgré le fait que cet argument soit techniquement optionnel, vous êtes vivement encouragé à spécifier la valeur correcte pour votre code si l'option de configuration default_charset a été définie de façon incorrecte pour l'entrée fournie.
Les jeux de caractères suivants sont supportés :
Jeux de caractères supportés Jeux de caractères Alias Description ISO-8859-1 ISO8859-1 Europe occidentale, Latin-1. ISO-8859-5 ISO8859-5 Jeu de caractère cyrillique rarement utilisé (Latin/Cyrillic). ISO-8859-15 ISO8859-15 Europe occidentale, Latin-9. Dispose du signe Euro, des caractères spéciaux français et finlandais, qui manquent au Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1). UTF-8 Unicode 8 bits multioctets, compatible avec l'ASCII cp866 ibm866, 866 Jeu de caractères Cyrillique spécifique à DOS. cp1251 Windows-1251, win-1251, 1251 Jeu de caractères Cyrillic spécifique à Windows. cp1252 Windows-1252, 1252 Jeu de caractères spécifique de Windows pour l'Europe occidentale. KOI8-R koi8-ru, koi8r Russe. BIG5 950 Chinois traditionnel, principalement utilisé à Taïwan. GB2312 936 Chinois simplifié, officiel. BIG5-HKSCS Big5 avec les extensions de Hong Kong, chinois traditionnel. Shift_JIS SJIS, SJIS-win, cp932, 932 Japonais EUC-JP EUCJP, eucJP-win Japonais MacRoman Jeu de caractères utilisé par Mac OS. ''Une chaîne vide active la détection de l'encodage depuis un script (multioctet Zend), default_charset et la locale courante (voir nl_langinfo() et setlocale()), dans cet ordre. Non recommandé. Note: Les autres jeux de caractères ne sont pas reconnus. L'encodage par défaut sera utilisé à la place et une alerte sera émise.
Valeurs de retour
Retourne la chaîne décodée.
Historique
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.1.0 |
flags à changé de ENT_COMPAT à
ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401.
|
| 8.0.0 |
encoding est désormais nullable.
|
Exemples
Exemple #1 Décoder des entités HTML
<?php
$orig = 'J\'ai "sorti" le <strong>chien</strong> tout à l\'heure';
$a = htmlentities($orig);
$b = html_entity_decode($a);
echo $a; // J'ai "sorti" le <strong>chien</strong> tout &agrave; l'heure
echo $b; // J'ai "sorti" le <strong>chien</strong> tout à l'heure
?>Notes
Note:
Vous pourriez vous demander pourquoi
trim(html_entity_decode(' '));ne réduit pas la chaîne à la chaîne vide. C'est parce que l'entité n'est pas un code ASCII 32 (qui serait supprimé par trim()), mais un code ASCII 160 (0xa0) dans l'encodage par défautISO 8859-1.
Voir aussi
- htmlentities() - Convertit tous les caractères éligibles en entités HTML
- htmlspecialchars() - Convertit les caractères spéciaux en entités HTML
- get_html_translation_table() - Retourne la table de traduction des entités utilisée par htmlspecialchars et htmlentities
- urldecode() - Décode une chaîne encodée URL
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User Contributed Notes 20 notes
Martin ¶
13 years ago
txnull ¶
9 years ago
Use the following to decode all entities:
<?php html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_XML1, 'UTF-8') ?>
I've checked these special entities:
- double quotes (")
- single quotes (' and ')
- non printable chars (e.g. )
With other $flags some or all won't be decoded.
It seems that ENT_XML1 and ENT_XHTML are identical when decoding.
aidan at php dot net ¶
20 years ago
This functionality is now implemented in the PEAR package PHP_Compat.
More information about using this function without upgrading your version of PHP can be found on the below link:
http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Compat
Benjamin ¶
11 years ago
The following function decodes named and numeric HTML entities and works on UTF-8. Requires iconv.
function decodeHtmlEnt($str) {
$ret = html_entity_decode($str, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
$p2 = -1;
for(;;) {
$p = strpos($ret, '&#', $p2+1);
if ($p === FALSE)
break;
$p2 = strpos($ret, ';', $p);
if ($p2 === FALSE)
break;
if (substr($ret, $p+2, 1) == 'x')
$char = hexdec(substr($ret, $p+3, $p2-$p-3));
else
$char = intval(substr($ret, $p+2, $p2-$p-2));
//echo "$char\n";
$newchar = iconv(
'UCS-4', 'UTF-8',
chr(($char>>24)&0xFF).chr(($char>>16)&0xFF).chr(($char>>8)&0xFF).chr($char&0xFF)
);
//echo "$newchar<$p<$p2<<\n";
$ret = substr_replace($ret, $newchar, $p, 1+$p2-$p);
$p2 = $p + strlen($newchar);
}
return $ret;
}
Daniel A. ¶
6 years ago
I wanted to use this function today and I found the documentation, especially about the flags, not particularly helpful.
Running the code below, for example, failed because the flag I used was the wrong one...
$string = 'Donna's Bakery';
$title = html_entity_decode($string, ENT_HTML401, 'UTF-8');
echo $title;
The correct flag to use in this case is ENT_QUOTES.
My understanding of the flag to use is the one that would correspond to the expected, converted outcome. So, ENT_QUOTES for a character that would be a single or double quote when converted... and so on.
Please help make the documentation a bit clearer.
Matt Robinson ¶
15 years ago
I wrote in a previous comment that html_entity_decode() only handled about 100 characters. That's not quite true; it only handles entities that exist in the output character set (the third argument). If you want to get ALL HTML entities, make sure you use ENT_QUOTES and set the third argument to 'UTF-8'.
If you don't want a UTF-8 string, you'll need to convert it afterward with something like utf8_decode(), iconv(), or mb_convert_encoding().
If you're producing XML, which doesn't recognise most HTML entities:
When producing a UTF-8 document (the default), then htmlspecialchars(html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8') (because you only need to escape < and > and & unless you're printing inside the XML tags themselves).
Otherwise, either convert all the named entities to numeric ones, or declare the named entities in the document's DTD. The full list of 252 entities can be found in the HTML 4.01 Spec, or you can cut and paste the function from my site (http://inanimatt.com/php-convert-entities.php).
php dot net at c dash ovidiu dot tk ¶
19 years ago
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', $test);
?>
Free at Key dot no ¶
14 years ago
Handy function to convert remaining HTML-entities into human readable chars (for entities which do not exist in target charset):
<?php
function cleanString($in,$offset=null)
{
$out = trim($in);
if (!empty($out))
{
$entity_start = strpos($out,'&',$offset);
if ($entity_start === false)
{
// ideal
return $out;
}
else
{
$entity_end = strpos($out,';',$entity_start);
if ($entity_end === false)
{
return $out;
}
// zu lang um eine entity zu sein
else if ($entity_end > $entity_start+7)
{
// und weiter gehts
$out = cleanString($out,$entity_start+1);
}
// gottcha!
else
{
$clean = substr($out,0,$entity_start);
$subst = substr($out,$entity_start+1,1);
// š => "s" / š => "_"
$clean .= ($subst != "#") ? $subst : "_";
$clean .= substr($out,$entity_end+1);
// und weiter gehts
$out = cleanString($clean,$entity_start+1);
}
}
}
return $out;
}
?>
neurotic dot neu at gmail dot com ¶
14 years ago
This is a safe rawurldecode with utf8 detection:
<?php
function utf8_rawurldecode($raw_url_encoded){
$enc = rawurldecode($raw_url_encoded);
if(utf8_encode(utf8_decode($enc))==$enc){;
return rawurldecode($raw_url_encoded);
}else{
return utf8_encode(rawurldecode($raw_url_encoded));
}
}
?>
Anonymous ¶
3 years ago
Why doesn't the html_entity_decode() function convert entities without the last semicolon (like A or A) to characters?
---
<?php
echo 'like A or A';
---
Browser displays fine:
----
like A or A
me at richardsnazell dot com ¶
16 years ago
I had a problem getting the 'TM' trademark symbol to display correctly in an email subject line. Using html_entity_decode() with different charsets didn't work, but directly replacing the entity with it's ASCII equivalent did:
$subject = str_replace('™', chr(153), $subject);
Victor ¶
13 years ago
We were having very peculiar behavior regarding foreign characters such as e-acute.
However, it was only showing up as a problem when extracting those characters out of our mysql database and when being displayed through a proxy server of ours that handles dns issues.
As other users have made a note of, the default character setting wasn't what they were expecting it to be when they left theirs blank.
When we changed our default_charset to "UTF-8", our problems and needs for using functions like these were no longer necessary in handling foreign characters such as e-acute. Good enough for us!
jojo ¶
18 years ago
The decipherment does the character encoded by the escape function of JavaScript.
When the multi byte is used on the page, it is effective.
javascript escape('aaああaa') ..... 'aa%u3042%u3042aa'
php jsEscape_decode('aa%u3042%u3042aa')..'aaああaa'
<?php
function jsEscape_decode($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);
}
?>
florianborn (at) yahoo (dot) de ¶
19 years ago
Note that
<?php
echo urlencode(html_entity_decode(" "));
?>
will output "%A0" instead of "+".
marion at figmentthinking dot com ¶
15 years ago
I just ran into the:
Bug #27626 html_entity_decode bug - cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()!
The simple solution if you're still running PHP 4 is to wrap the html_entity_decode() function with the utf8_decode() function.
<?php
$string = ' ';
$utf8_encode = utf8_encode(html_entity_decode($string));
?>
By default html_entity_decode() returns the ISO-8859-1 character set, and by default utf8_decode()...
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php
"Converts a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1"
slickriptide at gmail dot com ¶
8 years ago
When using this function, it's a good idea to pay attention when it says that leaving the charset parameter empty is "not recommended".
I had an issue where I was storing text files, with entities converted, into a database. When I retrieved them later and ran
$text_file = html_entity_decode($text_data);
the entities were NOT decoded.
Once I was aware of the problem, I changed the decode call to fully specify all of the parameters:
$text_file = html_entity_decode($text_data, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML5,'utf-8');
This converted the entities as expected.
daniel at brightbyte dot de ¶
20 years ago
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 $text;
}
?>
HTH
grvg (at) free (dot) fr ¶
18 years ago
Here is the ultimate functions to convert HTML entities to UTF-8 :
The main function is htmlentities2utf8
Others are helper functions
<?php
function chr_utf8($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 $string;
}
?>
jl dot garcia at gmail dot com ¶
15 years ago
I created this function to filter all the text that goes in or comes out of the database.
<?php
function filter_string($string, $nohtml='', $save='') {
if(!empty($nohtml)) {
$string = trim($string);
if(!empty($save)) $string = htmlentities(trim($string), ENT_QUOTES, 'ISO-8859-15');
else $string = html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'ISO-8859-15');
}
if(!empty($save)) $string = mysql_real_escape_string($string);
else $string = stripslashes($string);
return($string);
}
?>
kae at verens dot com ¶
16 years ago
the references to 'chr()' in the example unhtmlentities() function should be changed to unichr, using the example unichr() function described in the 'chr' reference (http://php.net/chr).
the reason for this is characters such as € which do not break down into an ASCII number (that's the Euro, by the way).
