"McHenry" <mchenry@mchenry.com> wrote in message
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>
> "IchBin" <weconsul@ptd.net> wrote in message
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>> McHenry wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> "Ruben van Engelenburg" <ruben@NOSPAM.nl> wrote in message
>>> news:44a28738$0$31643$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>>>> McHenry wrote:
>>>>> For example the following is retrieved as a price however it would be
>>>>> easier to extract using a regex if the code was first converted to a
>>>>> dollar sign:
>>>>>
>>>>> <h3>
>>>>>
>>>>> $249,000
>>>>>
>>>>> </h3>
>>>>
>>>> Hi McHenry,
>>>>
>>>> You're probably looking for html_entity_decode():
>>>>
>>>> <?php
>>>> echo html_entity_decode('<h3>$249,000</h3>');
>>>> ?>
>>>>
>>>> HTH.
>>>> Ruben.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
http://www.phpforums.nl
>>>
>>> When I run the example code above it outputs the HTML as it appears
>>> above and doesn't convert the ascii codes ?[/color]
>>
>> when I run it I get $249,000[/color]
>
> Output displayed in the browser ? Maybe the browser is converting the
> ASCII however it is still being fed the raw codes by PHP
>
> If you output the function to a txt file you'll find it's still the raw
> codes...
>[/color]
Read The Fine Manual :)
http://php.net/html-entity-decode
On that page, there's an example code:
function unhtmlentities($string)
{
// replace numeric entities
$string = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))',
$string);
$string = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr(\\1)', $string);
// replace literal entities
$trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
$trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);
return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);
}
Try and see if it works.
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