Hi
I am trying to add a text in php where a "<" and ">" sign exits in a string, however when I view the string I get '%3C' and '%3E' respectively.
I tried most of the php functions related to html entities such as:
htmlentities
html_entity_decode
htmlspecialchars
I viewed the html signs table but never found that '<' is equivalent to '%3C' or '>' is equivalent to '%3E'. But rather I found they are equivalent to '<' and '>' respectively.
%3C and the link are url encoded, use url_decode to decode them.
thank you for the reply. it was really helpful. However, it seemed it did not work on my local server. I tried couple of online decoder and they worked. So any idea why it did not work on the local server?
I also tried rawurlencode but with no luck.
Basically I put this code in single page:
<?php
$img = "<img border=0 src=\"<#themepath#>/close.gif\">";
$re = urldecode($img);
echo $re;
?>And I got the same results. However when I changed ' < > ' to this ' { }' The first ' { ' was displayed as ' %7B ' while ' } ' was displayed normally, ie without any change.
why is this happening?
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