Convert HTML entities "<" (less than) and ">" (greater than) to characters in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to convert HTML entities "<" (less than) and ">" (greater than) to characters.

Example

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<?php
   $str = "This is some &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt; text.";
   echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str);
?>

The code above generates the following result.