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JeanValjean
JeanValjean

Reputation: 17713

Convert a string with some ASCII code in PHP

I don't know if this question has been already asked! It really seems to be new! I found something similar here, but it is for Java, not PHP.

Here follows my problem. On the client-side, I'm using TinyMCE to get a long text. On the server-side, I extract the first n words from that string for listing purpose.

In particular, the string returned contains HTML code, that I remove by using the PHP strip_tags() function, and it also contains ASCII characters (e.g.   for spaces).

Is there any PHP function that automatically convert all the ASCII contained in a string or capable to detect all the ASCII code in a string?

In the first case all would be easy; in the latter I should find the ASCII and then replace it with the chr() function.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2969

Answers (1)

koopajah
koopajah

Reputation: 25552

Check the function html_entity_decode()

From the documentation :

html_entity_decode() is the opposite of htmlentities() in that it converts all HTML entities in the string to their applicable characters.

Upvotes: 1

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