How to remove htmlentities() values from the database?

Question

Long before I knew anything - not that I know much even now - I desgined a web app in php which inserted data in my mysql database after running the values through htmlent

Answer 1

Since PHP was the method of encoding, you'll want to use it to decode. You can use html_entity_decode to convert them back to their original characters. Gotta loop!

Just be careful not to decode rows that don't need it. Not sure how you'll determine that.