html_entity_decode

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)

html_entity_decode — Convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters

string html_entity_decode ( string $string [, int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 [, string $encoding = ini_get("default_charset") ]] )

html_entity_decode() is the opposite of htmlentities() in that it converts all HTML entities in the string to their applicable characters.