I have a string containing character &
And i have got the same string from $_POST containing &. when i var_dump it, the string form post shows 4 more characters then the var_dump(_same_string_).
I want to treat special characters from "post" as a "single character". What should I do?
I tried:
$postString = (string)$postString;
tried:
vardump(htmlspecialchars($postString));
it shows & as & while in var_dump(_same_string_) & remains same.
To convert from html entities back to the characters. Like from & to &, and > to >. Use htmlspecialchars_decode().
To do it the other way around, like & to &, use htmlspecialchars().
You'll need to use htmlspecialchars_decode() in order to decode the html entity &
echo htmlspecialchars_decode("&"):
//&
htmlspecialchars_decode()
Convert special HTML entities back to characters. This function is the opposite of htmlspecialchars(). It converts special HTML entities back to characters. The converted entities are: &, " (when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set), ' (when ENT_QUOTES is set), < and >.