unescape

unescape is used to decode entity, html and htmlall. It counters the effects of the escape modifier for the given types.

Basic usage

{$myVar|unescape}

Parameters

| Parameter Position | Type | Required | Possible Values | Default | Description | |--------------------|--------|----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 1 | string | No | html, htmlall, entity, | html | This is the escape format to use. | | 2 | string | No | ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, and any character set supported by htmlentities() | UTF-8 | The character set encoding passed to html\_entity\_decode() or htmlspecialchars\_decode() or mb\_convert\_encoding() et. al. |

Examples

<?php

$smarty->assign('articleTitle',
                "Germans use &quot;&Uuml;mlauts&quot; and pay in &euro;uro"
                );

These are example unescape template lines followed by the output

{$articleTitle}
Germans use "Ümlauts" and pay in €uro

{$articleTitle|unescape:"html"}
Germans use "Ümlauts" and pay in €uro

{$articleTitle|unescape:"htmlall"}
Germans use "Ümlauts" and pay in ?uro

See also escaping smarty parsing, escape modifier.