Re: html_entities_decode, but ignoring embedding php tags

Tim Burgan wrote: > I have a string: > $str = '&lt;p&gt;This is a paragraph&lt;p&gt;&lt;?php echo > \'hello\'; > ?&gt;'; > > Which I convert using: > html_entity_decode(stripslashes($str)); > > Which result in: > <p>This is a paragraph</p><?php echo 'hello'; ?> > > > But.. I was the PHP tags to STAY ENCODED like: > <p>This is a paragraph</p>&lt;?php echo 'hello'; ?&gt; $str = '&lt;p&gt;This is a paragraph&lt;p&gt;&lt;?php echo \'hello\';?&gt;'; //No need for stripslashes with the above input... $decode = html_entity_decode($str); $record = str_replace('<?php', '&lt;?php', $decode); $recode = str_replace('?>', '?&gt;', $recode); This won't work well if somebody does: $str = htmlentities('This is the <?php echo "<?php"?> "start" tag'); Depending on why you need this, and what you are doing, there are other things you could do, but I don't want to try to guess what you need this for... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm