The urldecode() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to decode url that is encoded by the encode () function.
Syntax:
string urldecode( $input )Parameters:
This function accepts a single parameter
$input
which holds the url to be decoded.
Return Value:
This function returns the decoded string on success. Below programs illustrate the urldecode() function in PHP:
Program 1:
<?php
// PHP program to illustrate urldecode function
// all sub domain of geeksforgeeks
echo urldecode("https%3A%2F%2Fpractice.geeksforgeeks.org%2F"). "\n";
echo urldecode("https%3A%2F%2Fgeeksforgeeks.org%2F"). "\n";
?>
Output
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
Program 2 :
<?php
// all sub domain of geeksforgeeks
$url2 = "https%3A%2F%2Fpractice.geeksforgeeks.org%2F";
$url3 = "https%3A%2F%2Fgeeksforgeeks.org%2F";
// create an array
$query = array($url1, $url2, $url3);
// print decoded url
foreach ($query as $chunk) {
printf(urldecode($chunk). "\n");
}
?>
Output
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/