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 &quot;&Uuml;mlauts&quot; and pay in &euro;uro

{$articleTitle|unescape:"html"}
Germans use "&Uuml;mlauts" and pay in &euro;uro

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