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<?php $student_comment_new = 'PDE+PEwuSW50cm9kdWN0aW9uIC0gUGFnZSAxIG9mIDI+TVkgUFJFVEVORCBTRUNPTkQgPGUuMT4='; $fixed = base64_decode($student_comment_new); echo $fixed . "\n\n"; //Decode the entire comment $comment_cltxt = base64_decode($student_comment_new); echo $comment_cltxt . "\n\n"; //get the comment number. $comment_nr = explode('><L.', $comment_cltxt)[0]; $comment_nr = explode('<', $comment_nr)[1]; //get the comment end-text $comment_nr_string = '<' . $comment_nr . '>'; $comment_end_string = '<e.' . $comment_nr . '>'; echo $comment_nr . "\n"; echo $comment_nr_string . "\n"; echo $comment_end_string . "\n"; //get the comment text itself $pos1 = strlen($comment_nr_string); $pos2 = strlen($comment_end_string); $comment_text = substr($comment_cltxt, $pos1, -$pos2); echo $comment_text . "\n";
Output for 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.28, 7.0.0 - 7.0.20, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.6
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