php paragraph decoding to original text

Question

I am trying to decode a paragraph using the PHP code below:

$str="Campaign+Description%0D%0A%0D%0AOperators+AIS+%0D%0A%0D%0ANot+allowed%3A%0D%0AIncent%0D%0AContent+Lock%0D%0ASMS+%26+Email%0D%0AVirtual+currency%0D%0AWiFi";
html_entity_decode(htmlentities($str));

However, I am not able to decode it and get the correct output.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '17 at 09:49

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This is a url encoded string so you need to use the urldecode() function on this, not html_entity_decode.

answered Feb 20 '17 at 09:49

fire

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I used urldecode(htmlentities($str)) still getting same string displayed. Thanks in Advance – Madhan Kumar Feb 20 '17 at 09:58

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 20 '17 at 09:51

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The string which you are tying to decode is url, not textual paragraph. So use urldecode() function.

Try below code :

$str="Campaign+Description%0D%0A%0D%0AOperators+AIS+%0D%0A%0D%0ANot+allowed%3A%0D%0AIncent%0D%0AContent+Lock%0D%0ASMS+%26+Email%0D%0AVirtual+currency%0D%0AWiFi";
urldecode(htmlentities($str));

answered Feb 20 '17 at 09:51

Manthan Dave

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Thanks I got it, Thank you very much Manthan Dave – Madhan Kumar Feb 20 '17 at 10:03

php paragraph decoding to original text

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