3v4l.org

run code in 300+ PHP versions simultaneously
<?php $json = array( "Sample" => array( "context" => 'جمهوری اسلامی ایران' ) ); $encoded = json_encode($json); var_dump($encoded); $unescaped = preg_replace_callback('/\\\u(\w{4})/', function ($matches) { return html_entity_decode('&#x' . $matches[1] . ';', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'); }, $encoded); var_dump($unescaped);
Output for 5.3.0 - 5.3.29, 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.34, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.30, 8.2.0 - 8.2.25, 8.3.0 - 8.3.14, 8.4.1
string(129) "{"Sample":{"context":"\u062c\u0645\u0647\u0648\u0631\u06cc \u0627\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u06cc \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646"}}" string(61) "{"Sample":{"context":"جمهوری اسلامی ایران"}}"
Output for 5.2.17
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /in/gYeNs on line 12
Process exited with code 255.
Output for 5.0.3
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /in/gYeNs on line 12
Process exited with code 255.

preferences:
51.64 ms | 408 KiB | 5 Q