php html_entity_decode(),PHP: html_entity_decode - Manual

Here is the ultimate functions to convert HTML entities to UTF-8 :

The main function is htmlentities2utf8

Others are helper functions

{

if ($code<0) returnfalse;

elseif ($code<128) returnchr($code);

elseif ($code<160)// Remove Windows Illegals Cars{

if ($code==128)$code=8364;

elseif ($code==129)$code=160;// not affectedelseif ($code==130)$code=8218;

elseif ($code==131)$code=402;

elseif ($code==132)$code=8222;

elseif ($code==133)$code=8230;

elseif ($code==134)$code=8224;

elseif ($code==135)$code=8225;

elseif ($code==136)$code=710;

elseif ($code==137)$code=8240;

elseif ($code==138)$code=352;

elseif ($code==139)$code=8249;

elseif ($code==140)$code=338;

elseif ($code==141)$code=160;// not affectedelseif ($code==142)$code=381;

elseif ($code==143)$code=160;// not affectedelseif ($code==144)$code=160;// not affectedelseif ($code==145)$code=8216;

elseif ($code==146)$code=8217;

elseif ($code==147)$code=8220;

elseif ($code==148)$code=8221;

elseif ($code==149)$code=8226;

elseif ($code==150)$code=8211;

elseif ($code==151)$code=8212;

elseif ($code==152)$code=732;

elseif ($code==153)$code=8482;

elseif ($code==154)$code=353;

elseif ($code==155)$code=8250;

elseif ($code==156)$code=339;

elseif ($code==157)$code=160;// not affectedelseif ($code==158)$code=382;

elseif ($code==159)$code=376;

}

if ($code<2048) returnchr(192| ($code>>6)) .chr(128| ($code&63));

elseif ($code<65536) returnchr(224| ($code>>12)) .chr(128| (($code>>6) &63)) .chr(128| ($code&63));

else returnchr(240| ($code>>18)) .chr(128| (($code>>12) &63)) .chr(128| (($code>>6) &63)) .chr(128| ($code&63));

}// Callback for preg_replace_callback('~&(#(x?))?([^;]+);~', 'html_entity_replace', $str);functionhtml_entity_replace($matches)

{

if ($matches[2])

{

returnchr_utf8(hexdec($matches[3]));

} elseif ($matches[1])

{

returnchr_utf8($matches[3]);

}

switch ($matches[3])

{

case"nbsp": returnchr_utf8(160);

case"iexcl": returnchr_utf8(161);

case"cent": returnchr_utf8(162);

case"pound": returnchr_utf8(163);

case"curren": returnchr_utf8(164);

case"yen": returnchr_utf8(165);//... etc with all named HTML entities}

returnfalse;

}

functionhtmlentities2utf8($string)// because of the html_entity_decode() bug with UTF-8{$string=preg_replace_callback('~&(#(x?))?([^;]+);~','html_entity_replace',$string);

return$string;

}?>