Html_entity_decode does not decode ASCII

Question

Here is my code:

$string = '&#73&#116'; $string = html_entity_decode($string); echo $string; 

This should be an echo of “This,” but it just repeats the ASCII codes. Am I using the wrong function? I also tried htmlspecialchars_decode and does not change anything.

Answer 1

These invalid entities They are actually valid in HTML 4 (and I suppose HTML5 too), but in this case the entities must be with a semicolon so that PHP recognizes them:

 $string = 'It'; 

htmlspecialchars_decode() only decodes < , > , & , ' and " (and the last two depend on the quotes flag).