Question

I have some PHP code which stores whatever is typed in a textbox in the databse. If I type in bob's apples, it gets stored in the database as bob's apples.

What can be the problem?

The table storing this has the collation of latin1_swedish_ci.

Answer 1

Looks like your PHP code is converting special char to HTML entities using htmlentities. You can make use of the function html_entity_decode to get back the original string.

$a = "bob's apples";
echo htmlentities($a,ENT_QUOTES);                                // bob's apples
echo html_entity_decode(htmlentities($a,ENT_QUOTES),ENT_QUOTES); //bob's apples