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Re: decode encoded url

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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'_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
> $html =
> 'url(./sites/all/themes/marinelli/img/backgrounds/men&#039;s_and_ladys&#039;_nights.jpg);';
>
> var_dump(mb_convert_encoding($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 cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 22:47 -0700
  Re: decode encoded url "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-07-17 09:00 +0200
  Re: decode encoded url "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-07-17 09:52 +0200
    Re: decode encoded url cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com> - 2012-07-17 06:04 -0700
      Re: decode encoded url Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-07-17 17:41 +0200
      Re: decode encoded url "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-07-18 10:29 +0200
    Re: decode encoded url Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-17 09:08 -0400
      Re: decode encoded url cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com> - 2012-07-17 06:57 -0700
        Re: decode encoded url Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-17 16:17 +0200
          Re: decode encoded url "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-07-17 09:56 -0500
      Re: decode encoded url Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2012-07-17 17:18 +0200
        Re: decode encoded url Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-17 15:26 -0400

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