PHP function base64_decode()

Availability in PHP 4.0

Decodes data encoded with MIME base64

Parameters

Parameter	Data type	Default value	Note
$data	string	not	The encoded data.
$strict	bool	null	Returns false if input contains character from outside the base64 alphabet.

Return values

string

|bool the original data or false on failure. The returned data may be binary.

Other resources

Official documentation of the base64-decode function