#35670 [NEW]: html_entity_decode not decoding correctly

From: mglind at utah dot com Operating system: FreeBSD 4.9 PHP version: 4.4.1 PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Bug description: html_entity_decode not decoding correctly Description: ------------ In previous versions I was able to decode the double encoded string by calling the html_entity_decode() just once. Now I have to call it twice to get the same functionality. Reproduce code: --------------- <? $encodedString = '&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;This is bold text.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;'; echo $encodedString . '<br /><br />'; echo html_entity_decode($encodedString) . '<br /><br />'; ?> // Got expected result by calling decode funtion twice, which wasn't needed in previous versions of PHP or at least 4.3.2 <? $encodedString = '&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;This is bold text.&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;'; echo $encodedString . '<br /><br />'; echo html_entity_decode($encodedString) . '<br /><br />'; echo html_entity_decode(html_entity_decode($encodedString)); ?> Expected result: ---------------- This is bold text. Above text displayed in bold. Actual result: -------------- <b>This is bold text.</b> Displaying as html code rather than bold text. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=35670&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=trysnapshot51 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35670&r=mysqlcfg