John Davidson

Message:

Good morning everyone,

I try to "clean" a string with html entities in php but its not working :-/.

Here is my simple code example:

$body = "Mal ein neuer <b>Test</b><br>";

$body = html_entity_decode($body);

$body = strip_tags($body);



var_dump($body);

The Output is:

string(47) "Mal ein neuer <b>Test</b><br>" 

Someone have an idea that my result ist just "Mal ein neuer Test"?

best regards,
Niklas

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My Answer:
remove HTML entities in PHP using the `htmlspecialchars_decode()` function. Here's an example:

php
$html = "Good morning everyone,<br>I try to";
$decoded_html = htmlspecialchars_decode($html);
echo $decoded_html;


This will output:


Good morning everyone,
I try to


This function will decode all HTML entities in the given string.