How To Display HTML Entities (decimal) In PHP?

Question

How do i display the percent sign % in PHP using unicode %?

Here is the code.

echo $percent . "%";

I have the code inside a PHP function on a separate page it is then displayed on the HTML page.

Answer 1

Do you mean how to display it in HTML once echo()'d from PHP? Your code there should do it. I just tested it on jsbin (the HTML entity at least).

Judging by your comment,

The php code just displays 99 % for example.

Well, it should, of course, in the HTML. If your viewing that in the front of your browser, it would be likely your encoding htmlspecialchars() or similar. But since you are echo'ing, that should be hard to capture and encode, unless using output buffer functions. Can you provide any more information please?

Answer 2

Is it on an HTML wrapped page? % seems to work for me.

Answer 3

$var = $percent . "%";
echo str_replace('%', '%', $var); // POG :O

Answer 4

have you looked at the html source that's being output? does it say

99%

or

99% 

or something similar?

Why are you using the entity? There's nothing wrong with

echo $percent . '%';

Answer 5

Try using the following: sprintf("99%%. Hopefull will echo out a percent sign!",$str,$number);

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Let me know if that works?