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Getting ’ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP

I am new to the PHP programming language and I need some help. When writing to a file with PHP, when an apostrophe is written to the file, it actually writes ’s. For example, when I try to write:

Hello it’s awesome

the program instead writes:

Hello it’ss awesome

I have tried multiple solutions, but still can’t get it working. If somebody could help, I would greatly appreciate it.

EDIT:
Ok so this is what i have tried:

echo mb_convert_encoding(
file_get_contents($filename),
“HTML-ENTITIES”,
“UTF-8”
);

The result was: \”Hello\” instead of “Hello”

I have also tried:

$text = fgets($fp);
$html = mb_convert_encoding($text, “HTML-ENTITIES”, “UTF-8”);

But didnt really understand what to do with that code

Also i would like to either convert a variable $stringDatad from ’s characters or convert the whole file from ’s characters. The file name is saved at $filename

Answer 1

try

echo stripslashes(mb_convert_encoding( file_get_contents($filename), "HTML-ENTITIES", "UTF-8" ));