html_entity_decode() Help.

[grozanc]

Hello Everyone,

 

I have a pdf that is automatically generated, unfortunately it's pulling ascii codes from the database and displaying them as ascii. I want to use the

html_entity_decode()

command to make the ascii display as the actual symbol (in my case a trade mark symbol instead of ™).

 

Here is the line of code the outputs the information from the database

$prod_str = $order->products[$i]['qty'] . " x " . $order->products[$i]['name'];

 

My question is where would I wrap the

html_entity_decode()

around to change

products[$i]['name'] 

from ascii to text?

 

Thanks,

Gary

[grozanc]

Anyone have any ideas or do I need to supply more info

[Christian F.]

Have you tried adding the function call around the variable you want to decode?

[ManiacDan]

You would wrap the function around the variable just as you've provided them.  Take the function, put it around the variable.

[grozanc]

OK, I've tried the following and nothing seems to work. Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong. I'm a newb when it comes to PHP so I don't expect that I'm doing this right. Please let me know if I'm not giving you enough information to be able to help.

 

$prod_str = $order->products[$i]['qty'] . " x " . $order->html_entity_decode(products[$i]['name']);

Page Load Error

$prod_str = $order->products[$i]['qty'] . " x " . html_entity_decode($order->products[$i]['name']);

Page renders but ascii character aren't converted.

html_entity_decode($prod_str = $order->products[$i]['qty'] . " x " . $order->products[$i]['name']); 

Page renders but ascii character aren't converted.

$prod_str = $order->products[$i]['qty'] . " x " . $order->products[$i]['name'];
$prod_str = html_entity_decode($prod_str); 

Page renders but ascii character aren't converted.

[Christian F.]

Hmm... Could you post an example of the content with the erroneous data, as well as the result of the following snippet?

var_dump ($order->products[$i]); die ();

 

Just add it directly above or after the snippet you have posted in your previous post, and use "show (page) source" to fetch the raw output for us.