use string html text to html

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The question is this, i have some text that i bring from the DB. The info is recorded as HTML. When i bring that info, it comes as "hello world" i mean, it comes all the html as string, and i want to use that string as html. I think there is a function in php for this, but i dont find.

example: i have "hello world" and need to be hello world

Check content-type. Try header('Content-type: text/html'); in start of output. — user680786
– user680786, Commented May 4, 2011 at 6:22
the browser source code shows: "<td class="d" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt;"> ", i have to convert the &lt to < and all those special chars — user3413623
– user3413623, Commented May 4, 2011 at 6:25
when you say When I bring that info, it comes as "hello world", what are you using to "bring in that info"? Sure, you could do a simple preg_replace() to kill the bold tags, but lets try to get to the ROOT of the problem... Please give us some code to work with here... — Jordan Arsenault
– Jordan Arsenault, Commented May 4, 2011 at 6:48

Andrie · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-04 08:28:55Z

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You can use:

echo htmlspecialchars_decode($var);

I think you use htmlspecialchar() when you insert to database

edited May 4, 2011 at 8:28

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-14 22:23:05Z

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See the functions

htmlentitites() (to make Hello => Hello) and
html_entity_decode() (to make Hello => Hello)

Guess that should solve your problem ;)

As from the PHP Manual:

<?php 
  $orig = "I'll \"walk\" the <b>dog</b> now";
  $a = htmlentities($orig);
  $b = html_entity_decode($a);
  echo $a; // I'll &quot;walk&quot; the &lt;b&gt;dog&lt;/b&gt; now
  echo $b; // I'll "walk" the <b>dog</b> now
?>

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user3413623 Over a year ago

i want the opposite of htmlentities, but the unhtmlentities shows nothing

Anthony Pegram · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-20 22:08:00Z

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if you are doing an

<?php echo "<b>Hello World</b>" ?>

in your php page, it will be interpreted as html. So there is no problem ;)

edited Dec 20, 2011 at 22:08

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answered May 4, 2011 at 6:05

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j_freyre Over a year ago

you should accept correct/acceptable answers when you ask a question

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