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Asked: 2026-06-17T11:48:29+00:00

I’m trying to scrape some data with php. When inserting the data into mysql

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I’m trying to scrape some data with php. When inserting the data into mysql table (xampp) the appostrohe appear like so – &#x27

How do I get rid of this characther.

I used addslashes and mysql_real_escape_string and I stell can’t get rid of it..

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m trying to scrape some data with php. When inserting the data into table the appostrohe appear like so – &#x27

    ' is the proper HTML for an apostrophe. If you’re scraping from someone’s website, you’re going to get their HTML, which in this case is apparently properly escaped.

    You can run the text through htmlspecialchars_decode() if you want to convert HTML entities to plain-text.

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