John Davidson

Message:

I am posting data to database which requires that I encode it. To this effect I used htmlentities() and to decode it am using html_entity_decode()

Here is my issue: My problem is that the decoded result is does not bold the "Helloworld" rather it shows back the Helloworld surrounded by the HTML bold tags.

$str = "<b>Hello world</b>";



echo $en = htmlentities(htmlentities($str));



echo "<br>decode<br>";



echo  $result = html_entity_decode($en);

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My Answer:
To properly bold the decoded data in PHP, you can use the following code:

php
$str = "<b>Hello world</b>";

echo $en = htmlentities(htmlentities($str));

echo "
decode
";

echo $result = html_entity_decode($en, ENT_QUOTES);


By adding the `ENT_QUOTES` parameter to the `html_entity_decode` function, it will decode both double and single quotes, which will properly display the bolded text "Hello world" without the HTML bold tags.