What is the equivalent of JavaScript's decodeURIcomponent in PHP?

Question

I have a string with unicode characters that I am transferring via HTTP. This string was encoded with Javascript's encodeURIcomponent(). Is there an equivalent function in php to Javascript's decodeURIComponent()?

Solution 1

urldecode()

However you do not need to use it on $_REQUEST variables, which are already decoded automatically.

Solution 2

rawurldecode() which does not decode plus to space charactor

Comments

[neonant]

i have used $_POST for fetching,but urldecode() doesnt work on unicode characters.

[Explosion Pills]

<?php function utf8_urldecode($str) { $str = preg_replace("/%u([0-9a-f]{3,4})/i","&#x\\1;",urldecode($str‌​)); return html_entity_decode($str,null,'UTF-8');; } ?>

[CJT3]

@ExplosionPills was that double semicolon at the end a typo?

[Matt K]

Side note: I am using encodeURIComponent() to pass data to a Laravel application and the request doesn't seem to automagically decode the value.

[Илья Зеленько]

Be careful: urldecode('+') === ' ' and decodeURIComponent('+') === '+'. Currently dont know why.