note 111859 added to function.html-entity-decode

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; } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 92.231.200.229 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/111859 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111859/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111859/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111859/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111859/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111859/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111859/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111859 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/111859 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php