decoding help

[Torrie]

Hello friends! Miss me? :-)

 

I can't get html characters to decode properly. Please help me at least get this to work:

 

The "html character" for an apostrophe is this:

'

 

How do I turn this:

'

into this:

'

 

Here is "pseudo-code" to help clarify the type of answer I want:

 

Hi Christy, here is your answer:

<?php

$character = ''';

$decoded = magic_decoder_function($character);

echo $decoded;

?>

 

Thank you,

Hugs and kisses,

-Torrie

 

[scootstah]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php

[Q695]

Look into: http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_str_replace.asp

[Torrie]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php

That was the first thing I tried -- I tried that, and it did not work: I tried both:

 

echo html_entity_decode(''');

echo htmlspecialchars_decode(''');

 

I still get '

[Torrie]

Look into: http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_str_replace.asp

That would only work for one individual string at a time

echo str_replace(''',"'",$string);

 

I want a php function that decodes all html characters.

 

For some reason, nothing decodes the apostrophe '

 

Try it in your bash/terminal/putty and you'll see it don't work at all.

 

Anyone?

[scootstah]

You need the ENT_QUOTES flag on, I believe.

[scootstah]

Yep, works here:

php > var_dump(html_entity_decode(''', ENT_QUOTES) === "'");

bool(true)

Would have tested earlier but I had to download php on this laptop.