PHP - How can I decode HTML special character strings to the actual characters?

Question

I have some text, for example: “ £   € “ I would like to decode it, so it outputs: £ €

I tried this code, but it doesn't work:

utf8_decode($utf8);
iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1', $utf8);
mb_convert_encoding($utf8, 'ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8');

utf8_encode($iso88591);
iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', $iso88591);
mb_convert_encoding($iso88591, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1');

I don't want to do a str_replace for each character.

html_entity_decode, they are entities, not a special encoding. https://3v4l.org/aIigr and/or http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php — chris85, Nov 27 '17 at 17:20
Although the characters you want are not actually the entities you have. `“` is a left double quote, for example. — chris85, Nov 27 '17 at 17:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '17 at 17:42

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echo html_entity_decode('&ldquo; &pound; &nbsp; &euro; &ldquo;');

answered Nov 27 '17 at 17:42

Nilesh Lathe

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PHP - How can I decode HTML special character strings to the actual characters?

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