htmlentities / html_entity_decode

[sylvian stone]

Hi,

I've been having problems encoding / decoding data, and can't seem to
figure out where I am going wrong.

I extract data from a mysql table with a line like:

$object_name[$a] = stripslashes(ht mlspecialchars( $row['object_name'],
ENT_QUOTES));


so an entry called, say, '"Y" axis' becomes '"Y&quot ; axis'

OK so far...but when I use the line below to decode:

echo html_entity_dec ode($object_nam e[$z], ENT_QUOTES);

it stills reads it out as : '"Y&quot ; axis'


What point am I missing here ?


Thanks
SS.

[Steve]

Re: htmlentities / html_entity_dec ode

The html_entity_dec ode function is a newer function. Try this if you
are using an older version of PHP:

// For users prior to PHP 4.3.0 you may do this:
function unhtmlentities( $string)
{
$trans_tbl = get_html_transl ation_table(HTM L_ENTITIES);
$trans_tbl = array_flip($tra ns_tbl);
return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);
}