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Re: decode encoded url [message #178690 is a reply to message #178678]

Tue, 17 July 2012 13:08

Jerry Stuckle
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On 7/17/2012 3:52 AM, "Álvaro G. Vicario" wrote:
> El 17/07/2012 7:47, cerr escribió/wrote:
>> I have a url that refers to a css background like:
>> url(./sites/all/themes/marinelli/img/backgrounds/men's_and_ladys&a mp;#039;_nights.jpg);
>>
>> But now I'm wondering how I possibly should name that file or how i
>> can decode this string to a url the filesystem & the browser can read?
>
> If the string is supposed to be HTML, you need to convert it into plain
> text. It can be extremaly tricky becase the two most obvious functions
> don't seem to work as advertised:
>
> http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php
> http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php
>
> Another alternative is to use mb_convert_encoding():
>
> <?php
> $html =
> 'url(./sites/all/themes/marinelli/img/backgrounds/men's_and_ladys& amp;#039;_nights.jpg);';
>
> var_dump(mb_convert_encoding($html, 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES'));
>
> Then, it's pretty straightforward to create the file.
>
>
> If the string is supposed to be plain text already, I see no problem.
>
>

It's a URL, so the correct function to use would be urldecode().

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		decode encoded url By: cerr on Tue, 17 July 2012 05:47
		Re: decode encoded url By: J.O. Aho on Tue, 17 July 2012 07:00
		Re: decode encoded url By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Tue, 17 July 2012 07:52
		Re: decode encoded url By: cerr on Tue, 17 July 2012 13:04
		Re: decode encoded url By: Christoph Becker on Tue, 17 July 2012 15:41
		Re: decode encoded url By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Wed, 18 July 2012 08:29
		Re: decode encoded url By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 17 July 2012 13:08
		Re: decode encoded url By: cerr on Tue, 17 July 2012 13:57
		Re: decode encoded url By: Erwin Moller on Tue, 17 July 2012 14:17
		Re: decode encoded url By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 17 July 2012 14:56
		Re: decode encoded url By: Michael Fesser on Tue, 17 July 2012 15:18
		Re: decode encoded url By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 17 July 2012 19:26

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