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Re: decode encoded url [message #178693 is a reply to message #178690]

Tue, 17 July 2012 15:18

Michael Fesser
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.oO(Jerry Stuckle)

> On 7/17/2012 3:52 AM, "Álvaro G. Vicario" wrote:
>> El 17/07/2012 7:47, cerr escribió/wrote:
>>> I have a url that refers to a css background like:
>>> url(./sites/all/themes/marinelli/img/backgrounds/men's_and_ladys&a mp;#039;_nights.jpg);
>>>
>>> But now I'm wondering how I possibly should name that file or how i
>>> can decode this string to a url the filesystem & the browser can read?
>>
>> If the string is supposed to be HTML, you need to convert it into plain
>> text. It can be extremaly tricky becase the two most obvious functions
>> don't seem to work as advertised:
>>
>> http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php
>> http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php
>>
>> Another alternative is to use mb_convert_encoding():
>>
>> <?php
>> $html =
>> 'url(./sites/all/themes/marinelli/img/backgrounds/men's_and_ladys& amp;#039;_nights.jpg);';
>>
>> var_dump(mb_convert_encoding($html, 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES'));
>>
>> Then, it's pretty straightforward to create the file.
>>
>>
>> If the string is supposed to be plain text already, I see no problem.
>>
>>
>
> It's a URL, so the correct function to use would be urldecode().

This is not a URL encoding, but HTML character references.

Micha

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		decode encoded url By: cerr on Tue, 17 July 2012 05:47
		Re: decode encoded url By: J.O. Aho on Tue, 17 July 2012 07:00
		Re: decode encoded url By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Tue, 17 July 2012 07:52
		Re: decode encoded url By: cerr on Tue, 17 July 2012 13:04
		Re: decode encoded url By: Christoph Becker on Tue, 17 July 2012 15:41
		Re: decode encoded url By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Wed, 18 July 2012 08:29
		Re: decode encoded url By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 17 July 2012 13:08
		Re: decode encoded url By: cerr on Tue, 17 July 2012 13:57
		Re: decode encoded url By: Erwin Moller on Tue, 17 July 2012 14:17
		Re: decode encoded url By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 17 July 2012 14:56
		Re: decode encoded url By: Michael Fesser on Tue, 17 July 2012 15:18
		Re: decode encoded url By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 17 July 2012 19:26

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