Question

I’m sending an email via jquery to a PHP page so when the address arrives on the server it looks like this:

emailaddress%40gmail.com

I’m trying to convert it with html_entiity_decode like so:

$values['emailaddress'] = 'emailaddress%40gmail.com';
$email_address = html_entity_decode($values['emailaddress']);

html_entity_decode doesn’t seem to be working

Do I need to do something on the client side before handing it off to the server?

Answer 1

The email is url-encoded, not html-encoded.

$email_address = urldecode($values['emailaddress']);