Removing/Replacing ” from string [duplicate]

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How to decode numeric HTML entities in PHP

How does one remove/replace ” characters from a string?

I've tried html_entity_decode but it don't seem to work. There are other similar characters in the string that don't seem t开发者_Go百科o be converted or removed.

Any ideas?

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The issue is that html_entity_decode() doesn't translate numeric entities.

I added an answer to the suggested duplicate How to decode numeric HTML entities in PHP

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str_replace(array('”', '”'), '', $thestring);

Here is a working example: http://codepad.org/gXrZcxaF

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Does this do what you're looking for:

• http://shiflett.org/blog/2005/oct/convert-smart-quotes-with-php Converting smart quotes and other characters with PHP so they display correctly
• http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php#84612 Dealing with Numeric entities in PHP (comment on the manual)