This function also decodes utf8 strings so it behaves more like the javascript unscape() function.
<?php
function utf8RawUrlDecode ($source) {
$decodedStr = "";
$pos = 0;
$len = strlen ($source);
while ($pos < $len) {
$charAt = substr ($source, $pos, 1);
if ($charAt == '%') {
$pos++;
$charAt = substr ($source, $pos, 1);
if ($charAt == 'u') {
$pos++;
$unicodeHexVal = substr ($source, $pos, 4);
$unicode = hexdec ($unicodeHexVal);
$entity = "&#". $unicode . ';';
$decodedStr .= utf8_encode ($entity);
$pos += 4;
}
else {
$hexVal = substr ($source, $pos, 2);
$decodedStr .= chr (hexdec ($hexVal));
$pos += 2;
}
} else {
$decodedStr .= $charAt;
$pos++;
}
}
return $decodedStr;
}
?>