[FX.php List] Continuing problem with parsing apostrophes

[Gareth Evans]

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GARETH EVANS


> From: Bob Patin <bob at patin.com>
> Reply-To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:14:06 -0600
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Subject: [FX.php List] Continuing problem with parsing apostrophes
> 
> I'm still having trouble with the following:
> 
> I'm reading from one table, doing stuff, and then writing the same record to a
> new table.
> 
> If the text is something like
> 
> Bob's
> 
> it displays fine on my page, but when I write it back to the new table, it
> gets changed to
> 
> Bob&#8217;s
> 
> What's the command to make sure that it gets written back to the database
> properly? I thought it was stripslashes() but I can't seem to get that to do
> anything.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
> bob at longtermsolutions.com
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