note 65597 added to function.html-entity-decode

I had a very strange problem with html_entity_decode on a string which begins with < followed with a letter. <?php $str = "<option value='test'"; $s = htmlentities($str); $var = html_entity_decode($str, ENT_QUOTES); print $var; //nothing appears on screen (that's what it seems anyway) print strlen($var);//20, the actual string length! ?> So does it mean html_entity_decode returns a blank 20-character long string? Nope. <?php $str2 = "Test <option value='test'>Test value"; print strpos($str2, $str);//returns 5!! ?> If you tried the same thing with a string which begins with < followed with an integer ("<1test value='test'" for instance), the string is printed on screen. This is because no XML tags start with an integer. So what is happening when you pass a non-closed XML tag is that a string is returned, it is what one would expect (as the strpos test shows) but it is simply NOT printed! Now, bug or undocumented behaviour? ---- Server IP: 217.174.203.10 Probable Submitter: 195.68.46.222 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER, HTML_30_40,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/65597 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65597/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65597/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65597/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65597/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65597/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65597/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65597 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/65597 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php