HTML character code to ASCII

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  • lani@lani.co.za
    #1

    HTML character code to ASCII

    I have special characters in my DB in HTML format like " & # 2 3 3 ;
    ". In the HTML part of the site this is fine but if I expert data to
    csv file it prints " & # 2 3 3 ; " and not the é character. Is there
    a PHP standard function to convert HTML character codes to ASCII
    characters?
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    • Olaf Schinkel
      #2
      Re: HTML character code to ASCII

      lani@lani.co.za schrieb:
      I have special characters in my DB in HTML format like " & # 2 3 3 ;
      ". In the HTML part of the site this is fine but if I expert data to
      csv file it prints " & # 2 3 3 ; " and not the é character. Is there
      a PHP standard function to convert HTML character codes to ASCII
      characters?
      html_entity_dec ode ?

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        • Jerry Stuckle
          #3
          Re: HTML character code to ASCII

          lani@lani.co.za wrote:
          I have special characters in my DB in HTML format like " & # 2 3 3 ;
          ". In the HTML part of the site this is fine but if I expert data to
          csv file it prints " & # 2 3 3 ; " and not the é character. Is there
          a PHP standard function to convert HTML character codes to ASCII
          characters?
          >
          Why are you storing characters in your DB in HTML format? You should be
          storing them as regular data - and if you need HTML for a display,
          convert after retrieving.

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            • Michael Fesser
              #4
              Re: HTML character code to ASCII

              ..oO(lani@lani. co.za)
              >I have special characters in my DB in HTML format like " & # 2 3 3 ;
              >". In the HTML part of the site this is fine but if I expert data to
              >csv file it prints " & # 2 3 3 ; " and not the é character. Is there
              >a PHP standard function to convert HTML character codes to ASCII
              >characters?
              Fix your DB instead and store the raw data, preferably in UTF-8.
              Then you can print it out as-is to a CSV file, to HTML, whatever.

              Micha

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