<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >urldecode</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="rawurlencode" HREF="function.rawurlencode.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="urlencode" HREF="function.urlencode.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="function.rawurlencode.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.urlencode.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.urldecode" ></A >urldecode</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN93599" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >urldecode -- Decodes URL-encoded string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN93602" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >urldecode</B > ( string str)<BR ></BR ><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" ><A NAME="AEN93613" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >urldecode()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$a = explode('&', $QUERY_STRING); $i = 0; while ($i < count($a)) { $b = split('=', $a[$i]); echo 'Value for parameter ', htmlspecialchars(urldecode($b[0])), ' is ', htmlspecialchars(urldecode($b[1])), "<br />\n"; $i++; }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.urlencode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >urlencode()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.rawurlencode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >rawurlencode()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.rawurldecode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >rawurldecode()</B ></A >. </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="function.rawurlencode.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.urlencode.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >rawurlencode</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" >urlencode</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >