Question

I saved some data in the database using mysql_real_escape_string() so the single quotes are escaped like this '. It looks ok in the browser, but how can I convert it back to single quote when I save the text in a txt file?

Answer 1

Please note that mysql_real_escape_string() does not turn apostrophes ' into ' Only HTML-oriented functions do, so you must have calls to htmlentities() somewhere in your script.

As for your question, the function you’re looking for is html_entity_decode()

echo html_entity_decode(''', ENT_QUOTES);