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Name

urldecode — Decodes a URL-encoded string, converting plus (+) signs to spaces.

Synopsis

string urldecode(url_encoded_data); string url_encoded_data: URL-encoded string

Returns

Decoded string; FALSE if the argument passed has no length when converted to a string

Description

urldecode() is used to decode URL-encoded strings. The function converts all sequences of % followed by two valid hexadecimal digits into the ASCII character referenced by the hex number. Invalid escape sequences (such as %FG) are ignored and left in the string.

The function also converts plus (+) signs into spaces to accommodate the encoding generated by some URL-encoding algorithms.

Version

PHP Version: 3+, 4+

Example

Example 1371. Manually decode a query string

// Pretend that a web server that doesn't really understand CGI passed us this query string
$query_string = 'SESSION_ID=192FFc92a9&user=cynical+user&action=delete&item=Give+it+a+110%89';

// Split the query string into separate name/value pairs
$nv_pairs = explode ('&', $query_string);

// urldecode and then display the name/value pairs in a nice format
foreach ($nv_pairs as $nv) {
    // Split the name/value pair into a name and a value
    list ($name, $value) = explode ('=', $nv);

    // Decode the name and value
    $name  = urldecode ($name);
    $value = urldecode ($value);

    // Display the name and value
    printf ("<b>Name:</b> %-12s <b>Value:</b> '%s'\n", $name, $value);
}

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