wp_specialchars_decode( string $string, string|int $quote_style = ENT_NOQUOTES )

Converts a number of HTML entities into their special characters.


Description

Specifically deals with: &, <, >, ", and ‘.

$quote_style can be set to ENT_COMPAT to decode " entities, or ENT_QUOTES to do both " and ‘. Default is ENT_NOQUOTES where no quotes are decoded.


Parameters

$string

(Required) The text which is to be decoded.

$quote_style

(Optional) Converts double quotes if set to ENT_COMPAT, both single and double if set to ENT_QUOTES or none if set to ENT_NOQUOTES. Also compatible with old _wp_specialchars() values; converting single quotes if set to 'single', double if set to 'double' or both if otherwise set. Default is ENT_NOQUOTES.

Default value: ENT_NOQUOTES


Return

(string) The decoded text without HTML entities.


Source

File: wp-includes/formatting.php

function wp_specialchars_decode( $string, $quote_style = ENT_NOQUOTES ) {
	$string = (string) $string;

	if ( 0 === strlen( $string ) ) {
		return '';
	}

	// Don't bother if there are no entities - saves a lot of processing
	if ( strpos( $string, '&' ) === false ) {
		return $string;
	}

	// Match the previous behaviour of _wp_specialchars() when the $quote_style is not an accepted value
	if ( empty( $quote_style ) ) {
		$quote_style = ENT_NOQUOTES;
	} elseif ( !in_array( $quote_style, array( 0, 2, 3, 'single', 'double' ), true ) ) {
		$quote_style = ENT_QUOTES;
	}

	// More complete than get_html_translation_table( HTML_SPECIALCHARS )
	$single = array( '&#039;'  => '\'', '&#x27;' => '\'' );
	$single_preg = array( '/&#0*39;/'  => '&#039;', '/&#x0*27;/i' => '&#x27;' );
	$double = array( '&quot;' => '"', '&#034;'  => '"', '&#x22;' => '"' );
	$double_preg = array( '/&#0*34;/'  => '&#034;', '/&#x0*22;/i' => '&#x22;' );
	$others = array( '&lt;'   => '<', '&#060;'  => '<', '&gt;'   => '>', '&#062;'  => '>', '&amp;'  => '&', '&#038;'  => '&', '&#x26;' => '&' );
	$others_preg = array( '/&#0*60;/'  => '&#060;', '/&#0*62;/'  => '&#062;', '/&#0*38;/'  => '&#038;', '/&#x0*26;/i' => '&#x26;' );

	if ( $quote_style === ENT_QUOTES ) {
		$translation = array_merge( $single, $double, $others );
		$translation_preg = array_merge( $single_preg, $double_preg, $others_preg );
	} elseif ( $quote_style === ENT_COMPAT || $quote_style === 'double' ) {
		$translation = array_merge( $double, $others );
		$translation_preg = array_merge( $double_preg, $others_preg );
	} elseif ( $quote_style === 'single' ) {
		$translation = array_merge( $single, $others );
		$translation_preg = array_merge( $single_preg, $others_preg );
	} elseif ( $quote_style === ENT_NOQUOTES ) {
		$translation = $others;
		$translation_preg = $others_preg;
	}

	// Remove zero padding on numeric entities
	$string = preg_replace( array_keys( $translation_preg ), array_values( $translation_preg ), $string );

	// Replace characters according to translation table
	return strtr( $string, $translation );
}


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