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Encoding characters back to string in php

I have following string:

ab"wefdty?'aaavvv

After submitting the data it shows like this :

ab'wefdty?"aaavvv

I tried with htmlspecialCharacters, htmlentities but it won’t work. How should I get the original text back?

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  1. 0

    You should use the html_entity_decode function :

    https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

    echo html_entity_decode("ab'wefdty?"aaavvv");
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  2. 0

    You can use following PHP functions as both are valid approaches:

    html_entity_decode()
htmlspecialchars_decode()

    But htmlspecialchars_decode() is limited as it only decodes some characters:
    (&, " (double quote), ‘< (less than), and ‘ (greater than)).

    If your encoded string includes other HTML entities, html_entity_decode() would be more comprehensive.

    To decode entities back to their original characters in PHP, you can do it in following way:

    $encodedString = 'ab&#039;wefdty?&quot;aaavvv';
$decodedString = html_entity_decode($encodedString, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML401, 'UTF-8');
echo $decodedString;
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