02-07-2005
Inside the script, you should be ok if you always have double quotes around that argument. But you can turn off wildcard expansion with:
set -o noglob
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htmlspecialchars_decode
HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3) 1 HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)
htmlspecialchars_decode - Convert special HTML entities back to characters
SYNOPSIS
string htmlspecialchars_decode (string $string, [int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401])
DESCRIPTION
This function is the opposite of htmlspecialchars(3). It converts special HTML entities back to characters.
The converted entities are: &, " (when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set), ' (when ENT_QUOTES is set), < and >.
PARAMETERS
o $string
- The string to decode.
o $flags
- A bitmask of one or more of the following flags, which specify how to handle quotes and which document type to use. The default
is ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401.
Available $flags constants
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Constant Name | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| | |
| ENT_COMPAT | |
| | |
| | Will convert double-quotes and leave single- |
| | quotes alone. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_QUOTES | |
| | |
| | Will convert both double and single quotes. |
| | |
| | |
|ENT_NOQUOTES | |
| | |
| | Will leave both double and single quotes uncon- |
| | verted. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_HTML401 | |
| | |
| | Handle code as HTML 4.01. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_XML1 | |
| | |
| | Handle code as XML 1. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_XHTML | |
| | |
| | Handle code as XHTML. |
| | |
| | |
| ENT_HTML5 | |
| | |
| | Handle code as HTML 5. |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
RETURN VALUES
Returns the decoded string.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.4.0 | |
| | |
| | The constants ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML |
| | and ENT_HTML5 were added. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A htmlspecialchars_decode(3) example
<?php
$str = "<p>this -> "</p>
";
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str);
// note that here the quotes aren't converted
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str, ENT_NOQUOTES);
?>
The above example will output:
<p>this -> "</p>
<p>this -> "</p>
SEE ALSO
htmlspecialchars(3), html_entity_decode(3), get_html_translation_table(3).
PHP Documentation Group HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)