Is there a php function to convert these characters?

Question

I use a lot of str_replace, for example:

$prune = str_replace("'", '\'', $prune);
$prune = str_replace('’', '\'', $prune);
$prune = str_replace('–', '-', $prune);
$prune = str_replace('“', '', $prune);
$prune = str_replace('"', '', $prune);
$prune = str_replace('&#233', 'e', $prune);
$prune = str_replace('&', '&', $prune);

Is there a simpler PHP function for this, for example htmlspecialchars_decode () ?

Answer 1

You are looking for html_entity_decode; It reflects htmlentitieslike a htmlspecialchars_decodemirror htmlspecialchars.

Answer 2

You can use arrays in str_replace

$search  = array("'", '’', '–', '“', '"', '&#233', '&');
$replace = array('\'', '\'', '-', '', '', 'e', '&');
$prune = str_replace($search, $replace, $prune);

Answer 3

Try $ prune = htmlspecialchars_decode ($ prune);

Click http://us1.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php