Decoding Unicode using PHP

[FULLAHiMHARD]

Hiya,

I have taken over somebody elses job, and basicly he stored all the emails in our database in Unicode, as our database is publicly available and it makes it harder for spam bots or anybody really to use the data.

The problem is that I cannot figure out to decode it back to normal

For example

&# 49;&# 50;&# 51;@&# 103;&# 109;&# 97;&# 105;&# 108;&# 46;&# 99;&# 111;&# 109;

(without the spaces)

will print out in html as [e-mail]

Is there any function that can convert all the emails back to normal using PHP?

[Weedpacket]

That's not Unicode. Those are SGML/HTML/XML entities.

[man]html_entity_decode[/man] and that's why you shouldn't mangle your database content just to change the way it displays.