John Davidson

Message:

I try to get product variation meta data and my string contains thes html entity spaces  

My code:

$_alusM2 = get_post_meta($product_id, '_alus_al', true);

It should give me _alus_al field text and it looks like this: 8,6 m2 / 224 tk / 1350 kg but I see many   before 8,6 m2

I've tried this:

$content = str_replace(' ',"",$_alusM2);

$content = preg_replace( '/\s+/', '', $content );

but still same issue.

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If I var_dump($_alusM2); then it says string(25) so it is OK but why it gives so many white spaces   with echo?

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My Answer:
You can try using the html_entity_decode function to convert the HTML entities like   back to their corresponding characters. Here's an updated version of your code:

php
$_alusM2 = get_post_meta($product_id, '_alus_al', true);
$content = html_entity_decode($_alusM2);
$content = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $content);

echo $content;


This should remove the   entities before the string when you echo the content.