<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >urldecode</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="URL Functions" HREF="ref.url.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="parse_url" HREF="function.parse-url.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="urlencode" HREF="function.urlencode.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.parse-url.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.urlencode.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.urldecode" >urldecode</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN27282" ></A >urldecode -- Decodes URL-encoded string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN27285" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >string urldecode</CODE >(string str);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Decodes any <TT CLASS="literal" >%<TT CLASS="replaceable" ><I >##</I ></TT ></TT > encoding in the given string. The decoded string is returned. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >Urldecode()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 $a = split ('&', $querystring); 3 $i = 0; 4 while ($i < count ($a)) { 5 $b = split ('=', $a [$i]); 6 echo 'Value for parameter ', htmlspecialchars (urldecode ($b [0])), 7 ' is ', htmlspecialchars (urldecode ($b [1])), "<BR>"; 8 $i++; 9 } 10 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.urlencode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >urlencode()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.parse-url.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.urlencode.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >parse_url</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.url.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >urlencode</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >