note that at this time it seems that mb_decode_numericentity() only works with decimal entities and not hexadecimal entities. This fact would have saved me a good hour of time in debugging.
For those who need to convert hex entities try first converting them all to decimal entities with a combination of the preg_replace() and hexdec() functions.
mb_decode_numericentity
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)
mb_decode_numericentity — Decode HTML numeric string reference to character
Descripción
string mb_decode_numericentity
( string $str
, array $convmap
[, string $encoding
] )
Convert numeric string reference of string str in a specified block to character.
Lista de parámetros
Valores retornados
The converted string.
Ejemplos
Example #1 convmap example
$convmap = array (
int start_code1, int end_code1, int offset1, int mask1,
int start_code2, int end_code2, int offset2, int mask2,
........
int start_codeN, int end_codeN, int offsetN, int maskN );
// Specify Unicode value for start_codeN and end_codeN
// Add offsetN to value and take bit-wise 'AND' with maskN,
// then convert value to numeric string reference.
mb_decode_numericentity
donovan at conduit it
19-Apr-2006 06:05
19-Apr-2006 06:05
dirk at camindo de
30-Jan-2005 06:51
30-Jan-2005 06:51
By use of function utf8_decode you'll get a problem with all extended chars above ISO-8859-1 charset. You can solve this problem by using the
function mb_encode_numericentity before:
// convert $text from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1
$convmap = array(0xFF, 0x2FFFF, 0, 0xFFFF);
$text = mb_encode_numericentity($text, $convmap, "UTF-8");
$text = utf8_decode($text);
The second line encodes all extended chars below 0xFF, the third line converts the rest: 0x80 - 0xFF
Andrew Simpson
11-Dec-2004 02:29
11-Dec-2004 02:29
Many web browsers will tend upload high order characters as UTF-8 encoded entities.
Here is some simple code to convert UTF-8 HTML entities within a block of text into proper characters:
<?php
//decode decimal HTML entities added by web browser
$body = preg_replace('/&#\d{2,5};/ue', "utf8_entity_decode('$0')", $body );
//decode hex HTML entities added by web browser
$body = preg_replace('/&#x([a-fA-F0-7]{2,8});/ue', "utf8_entity_decode('&#'.hexdec('$1').';')", $body );
//callback function for the regex
function utf8_entity_decode($entity){
$convmap = array(0x0, 0x10000, 0, 0xfffff);
return mb_decode_numericentity($entity, $convmap, 'UTF-8');
}
?>
php at cNhOiSpPpAlMe dot org
31-Mar-2004 10:55
31-Mar-2004 10:55
Here are functions to convert hankaku to zenkaku characters (and vice-versa) in Japanese text.
<?php
// Supported characters:
// (space)
// !#$%&()*+,./0123456789:;<=>?@
// ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`
// abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}
// (Katakana isn't supported.)
function f_han2zen ($string,$encoding = null) {
if (is_null($encoding)) $encoding = mb_internal_encoding();
$convmap = array(
0x20,0x20,0x3000-0x20,0xffff, // Space
0x21,0x7e,0xff01-0x21,0xffff);
$temp = mb_encode_numericentity($string,$convmap,$encoding);
$convmap = array(0,0xffff,0,0xffff);
return mb_decode_numericentity($temp,$convmap,$encoding);
}
function f_zen2han ($string,$encoding = null) {
if (is_null($encoding)) $encoding = mb_internal_encoding();
$convmap = array(
0x3000,0x3000,-(0x3000-0x20),0xffff, // Space
0xff01,0xff5e,-(0xff01-0x21),0xffff);
$temp = mb_encode_numericentity($string,$convmap,$encoding);
$convmap = array(0,0xffff,0,0xffff);
return mb_decode_numericentity($temp,$convmap,$encoding);
}
// Sample usage:
f_han2zen("test","shift_jis");
f_han2zen("test","utf-8");
?>
dev at glossword info
19-Nov-2003 04:43
19-Nov-2003 04:43
Just two great functions for daily use:
/* Converts any HTML-entities into characters */
function my_numeric2character($t)
{
$convmap = array(0x0, 0x2FFFF, 0, 0xFFFF);
return mb_decode_numericentity($t, $convmap, 'UTF-8');
}
/* Converts any characters into HTML-entities */
function my_character2numeric($t)
{
$convmap = array(0x0, 0x2FFFF, 0, 0xFFFF);
return mb_encode_numericentity($t, $convmap, 'UTF-8');
}
print my_numeric2character('’ ἀ â');
print my_character2numeric(' ’ â ');
