I am having a small issue with displaying text that has been converted with htmlspecialchars. In the db I have this:
<b&gt;Testing:</b&gt;<br&gt;<ol&gt;<li&gt;it's a test<br&gt;</li&gt;</ol&gt;
When I use:
echo htmlspecialchars_decode($variable);
The page displays:
<b>Testing:</b><br><ol><li>it's a test<br></li></ol>
I am not sure why this is happening. Any help is appreciated. Thank you
Not sure if the DB encoded html makes much sense - seems incomplete with ampersands all over the place. Looks double encoded. What output were you expecting?
echo htmlspecialchars_decode('&');
Should give &
echo htmlspecialchars_decode("<b&gt;Testing:</b&gt;<br&gt;<ol&gt;<li&gt;it's a test<br&gt;</li&gt;</ol&gt;");
Gives me...
<b>Testing:</b><br><ol><li>it's a test<br></li></ol>
in Browser View Source.
If you run htmlspecialchars_decode twice...
echo htmlspecialchars_decode(htmlspecialchars_decode("<b&gt;Testing:</b&gt;<br&gt;<ol&gt;<li&gt;it's a test<br&gt;</li&gt;</ol&gt;"));
I get this...
<b>Testing:</b><br><ol><li>it's a test<br></li></ol>
Which is closer to what you probably want.
I am getting <b>Testing:</b><br><ol><li>it's a test<br></li></ol>, but that is exactly what is displaying on my page. It's not showing bold text it is showing the tags.
If it's showing the tags on-screen then the output is still encoded. Have a look at View Source in your browser.
That did it! Thank you
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