Best way to convert html entities to html characters

What I need to do is convert any html entities to the actual html character. It can be in javascript or preferable php.

Here's the senario. When I save content to the database from TinyMCE it converts it to html entities for me. That's all good and great when the webpage is rendered, but when I also what to put it in a text input the html entities stick and to a normal user it looks a little wonky.

The only way I can think of doing it is have an array with the entity as the key and character as the value. When an entity is found, check t开发者_StackOverflow中文版hat array and spit out the value.

Does anyone have a better/more efficient solution, possibly using regex?

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html_entity_decode sounds like it is what you are after. It isn't often that people want to take HTML input from users and then display it as text later though.

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You can obviously use html_entity_decode at the PHP level or if you're getting the data to javascript through ajax you can use unescape() javascript function to do the same thing at the client-side

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Use php function html_entity_decode

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Have you tried applying html_entity_decode to your text? Documentation here