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

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Omar picture Omar · Oct 9, 2010 · Viewed 36.5k times · Source

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()?

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Explosion Pills picture Explosion Pills · Oct 9, 2010 
urldecode()

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

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