The opposite of htmlentities() ???

[Anon]

Is there any php function that can do the opposite of htmlentities()
example
that transform ä to ä

thank you in advance
gjergji

[Anon]

I don't think there is. Why do you need it ?

[Anon]

I have some documents written with HTML editor (in German and french) so they have HTML entities like &... and i have to mail those as plain text, unfortunally those documents are big so i wanted any better solution then ereg_replace()

gjergji

[Anon]

• For simple replacements, use str_replace() instead (more efficient)

• If you use PHP4, I found what you want in the get_html_translation_table() function help :

$trans = array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES));
$new = strtr($str,$trans);

[Anon]

Unfortunally those servers have 3.0.6
which is bugy for with str_replace()
Anyway thanks a lot for your help and time
Happy new year!!!

gjergji

[Anon]

Is this a one-time need? Just d/l the scripts to your local machine, install the cgi version of php locally, and process them there.