unescape
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unescape

unescape is used to decode entity, html and htmlall. It counters the effects of the escape modifier for the given types.

Parameter Position Type Required Possible Values Default Description
1 string No html, htmlall, entity, html This is the escape format to use.
2 string No ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, and any character set supported by htmlentities() UTF-8 The character set encoding passed to html_entity_decode() or htmlspecialchars_decode() or mb_convert_encoding() et. al.

Example 5.22. escape


<?php

$smarty->assign('articleTitle',
                "Germans use &quot;&Uuml;mlauts&quot; and pay in &euro;uro"
                );

?>

These are example unescape template lines followed by the output 


{$articleTitle}
Germans use &quot;&Uuml;mlauts&quot; and pay in &euro;uro

{$articleTitle|unescape:"html"}
Germans use "&Uuml;mlauts" and pay in &euro;uro

{$articleTitle|unescape:"htmlall"}
Germans use "Ümlauts" and pay in €uro

See also escaping smarty parsing, escape modifier.

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