[FX.php List] Continuing problem with parsing apostrophes

[Bob Patin]

Thought it would work, but it didn't... this is driving me crazy!

On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Gareth Evans wrote:

> html_entity_decode();
> -- 
> 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
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