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HTML character code to ASCII lani 06-23-2008
Posted by lani on June 23, 2008, 9:58 am
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 I have special characters in my DB in HTML format like " & # 2 3 3 ;
". In the HTML part of the site this is fine but if I expert data to
csv file it prints " & # 2 3 3 ; " and not the =E9 character. Is there
a PHP standard function to convert HTML character codes to ASCII
characters?

Posted by Olaf Schinkel on June 23, 2008, 10:10 am
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 lani@lani.co.za schrieb:
> I have special characters in my DB in HTML format like " & # 2 3 3 ;
> ". In the HTML part of the site this is fine but if I expert data to
> csv file it prints " & # 2 3 3 ; " and not the é character. Is there
> a PHP standard function to convert HTML character codes to ASCII
> characters?
html_entity_decode ?

Posted by Jerry Stuckle on June 23, 2008, 11:16 am
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lani@lani.co.za wrote:
> I have special characters in my DB in HTML format like " & # 2 3 3 ;
> ". In the HTML part of the site this is fine but if I expert data to
> csv file it prints " & # 2 3 3 ; " and not the é character. Is there
> a PHP standard function to convert HTML character codes to ASCII
> characters?
>

Why are you storing characters in your DB in HTML format? You should be
storing them as regular data - and if you need HTML for a display,
convert after retrieving.

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Posted by Michael Fesser on June 24, 2008, 2:28 am
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.oO(lani@lani.co.za)

>I have special characters in my DB in HTML format like " & # 2 3 3 ;
>". In the HTML part of the site this is fine but if I expert data to
>csv file it prints " & # 2 3 3 ; " and not the é character. Is there
>a PHP standard function to convert HTML character codes to ASCII
>characters?

Fix your DB instead and store the raw data, preferably in UTF-8.
Then you can print it out as-is to a CSV file, to HTML, whatever.

Micha

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