<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >base64_decode</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="URL Functions" HREF="ref.url.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="URL Functions" HREF="ref.url.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="base64_encode" HREF="function.base64-encode.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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="ref.url.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.base64-encode.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.base64-decode" ></A >base64_decode</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN93417" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >base64_decode -- Decodes data encoded with MIME base64</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN93420" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >base64_decode</B > ( string encoded_data)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >base64_decode()</B > decodes <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >encoded_data</I ></TT > and returns the original data. The returned data may be binary. </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.base64-encode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >base64_encode()</B ></A >, <A HREF="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html" TARGET="_top" >RFC 2045</A > section 6.8. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.url.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.base64-encode.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >URL Functions</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.url.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >base64_encode</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >