ERROR : Call to undefined function: htmlspecialchars_decode()

Hi i just recently uploaded the Boonex Barracuda website directory to my Hostgator server. When i was creating the category , after filling up the form when i clicked submit , i got this error . Please help me out the problem.

FULL ERROR
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: htmlspecialchars_decode() in /home/lazybomb/public_html/utils/cat_add.php on line 42



Server details :

Operating system Linux
Machine Type i686
Apache version 1.3.39 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.8
PHP version 4.4.4
MySQL version 4.1.22-standard

cat_add.php

function categories_add()
{
global $gQueries, $gStatistics, $gParams, $gErrors;
$rec_arr = array();
$dir_cat = array();

for(reset($_POST); list($key, $value) = each($_POST)
{
if(preg_match("/_add_cat_title/i", $key))
{
$dir_cat = array();
$dir_cat[0] = get_param('dir');
$dir_cat[1] = get_param('cat');
if(count($dir_cat))
{
$params['id_dir'] = $gQueries->get_new_id('las_categories', 'id_dir');
$params['dir'] = $dir_cat[0];
$params['parent'] = $dir_cat[1];
$params['path'] = get_cat_path_by_id($params['parent'], $params['dir'], true);
//need to correct
$params['title'] = strip_tags(htmlspecialchars_decode($value)); ERROR IN THIS LINE
$params['meta'] = htmlspecialchars(htmlspecialchars_decode($_POST['_add_cat_meta']));

$usr_id = get_user_id();
$params['owner'] = $usr_id ? $usr_id : 0;
$params['status'] = is_admin() ? 1 : 2;

//need to correct
$params['descr'] = htmlspecialchars(htmlspecialchars_decode($_POST['_add_cat_descr']));
escape_arr($params);
if(trim($params['title']) == '')
$gErrors->addError('error','title_not_specified');



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Remaining Code
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That function is for PHP5+, you have PHP4.4.4

 

use html_entity_decode() function it works on php 4

 

thanks Gawk and Sunny ..
despite of being such a big company hostgator is providing such a cheap technology..
ok i will now try html_entity_decode()

thanks

 

thanks for the post..wow...i eneded up here.. thanks..