Convert HTML entities to characters in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to convert HTML entities to characters.

Example

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<?php
   $str = "&lt;&copy; W3S&ccedil;h&deg;&deg;&brvbar;&sect;&gt;";
   echo html_entity_decode($str);
?>

The code above generates the following result.