Php convert string to html format

I have a string <div id="myid">...</div>

How would I change this into

I have tried a few things but no luck any help?

Update

function get_page(){
  $file = 'file.php';
  $str = file_get_contents($file);
  $str = html_entity_decode($str);
  return $str;
}
$output = get_page();
echo $output;//don't work

FIX

function get_page(){
      $file = 'file.php';
      $str = file_get_contents($file);
      return $str;
    }
    $output = get_page();
    echo html_entity_decode($output);//works

asked Nov 24, 2010 at 13:23

ValVal

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The function for that is htmlspecialchars_decode().

Note that for the function to decode quotes, you need to specify the $quote_style parameter.

answered Nov 24, 2010 at 13:24

PekkaPekka

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answered Nov 24, 2010 at 13:34

YeroonYeroon

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$from = array('<', '>');
$to = array('<', '>');
$string = str_replace($from, $to, $string);

answered Nov 24, 2010 at 13:26

NapasNapas

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use this it's better ...

Test paragraph.
 Other text';
echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";
// Allow 
 and 
echo strip_tags($text, '
');
?>

answered Dec 24, 2013 at 2:40

htmlspecialchars_decode($string)

Conner

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answered Nov 24, 2010 at 13:24

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Example

Convert HTML entities to characters:

$str = '<a href="https://www.w3schools.com">w3schools.com</a>';
echo html_entity_decode($str);
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The HTML output of the code above will be (View Source):

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The browser output of the code above will be:

Definition and Usage

The html_entity_decode() function converts HTML entities to characters.

The html_entity_decode() function is the opposite of htmlentities().

Syntax

html_entity_decode(string,flags,character-set)

Parameter Values

Technical Details

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Example

Convert some HTML entities to characters:

$str = "Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'";
echo html_entity_decode($str, ENT_COMPAT); // Will only convert double quotes
echo "
";
echo html_entity_decode($str, ENT_QUOTES); // Converts double and single quotes
echo "
";
echo html_entity_decode($str, ENT_NOQUOTES); // Does not convert any quotes
?>

The HTML output of the code above will be (View Source):

Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'

Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'

Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'

The browser output of the code above will be:

Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
Albert Einstein said: 'E=MC²'
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Convert some HTML entities to characters, using the Western European character-set:

$str = "My name is Øyvind Åsane. I'm Norwegian.";
echo html_entity_decode($str, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");
?>

The HTML output of the code above will be (View Source):

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The browser output of the code above will be:

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