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Asked: 2026-05-19T23:24:53+00:00

Heres my code: $string = ‘&#73&#116’; $string = html_entity_decode($string); echo $string; It should be

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Heres my code:

$string = '&#73&#116';
$string = html_entity_decode($string);
echo $string;

It should be echoing “It”, but its just echoing the ASCII codes. Am I using the wrong function? I also tried htmlspecialchars_decode and it changes nothing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Those are not valid entities Actually, they are valid in HTML 4 (and I suppose HTML5 too), but in this case the entities need to be semicolon-terminated for PHP to recognize them:

    $string = 'It';

    htmlspecialchars_decode() only decodes <, >, &, ' and " (and the last two depend on the quotes flag).

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