Url decode

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Function Syntax

string url_decode(string source )

• source is the original to decode

Returns the "normal" version of the supplied source string with all URI-encoded escape sequences replaced with non-alphanumeric characters. For example, "+" characters are replaced with spaces and all instances of "%" followed by a two-digit (hexadecimal) character code are replaced with their corresponding non-alphanumeric characters.

See Also

to_url() | url_encode()

More Information

See the w3c page here for more info.

Special

String converted by this function can be returned to their original form with url_encode().