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<h1 class="refname">rawurldecode</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">rawurldecode</span> — <span class="dc-title">Decode URL-encoded strings</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.rawurldecode-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>rawurldecode</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$str</code></span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Returns a string in which the sequences with percent
(<em>%</em>) signs followed by two hex digits have been replaced
with literal characters.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">str</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The URL to be decoded.
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</dl>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.rawurldecode-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns the decoded URL, as a string.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.rawurldecode-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>rawurldecode()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">rawurldecode</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'foo%20bar%40baz'</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// foo bar@baz<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.rawurldecode-notes">
<h3 class="title">Notes</h3>
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
<p class="para">
<span class="function"><strong>rawurldecode()</strong></span> does not decode plus symbols ('+')
into spaces. <span class="function"><a href="function.urldecode.html" class="function">urldecode()</a></span> does.
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.rawurldecode-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.rawurlencode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">rawurlencode()</a> - URL-encode according to RFC 3986</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.urldecode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">urldecode()</a> - Decodes URL-encoded string</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.urlencode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">urlencode()</a> - URL-encodes string</span></li>
<li class="member"><a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3986" class="link external">» RFC 3986</a></li>
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