Getting ’ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP

Question

I\'ve tried converting the text to or from utf8, which didn\'t seem to help.

I\'m getting:

\"It’s Getting the Best of Me\"

It sho

Answer 1

If you're here because you're experiencing issues with junk characters in your WordPress site, try this:

1. Open wp-config.php

2. Comment out define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8') and define('DB_COLLATE', '')

   /** MySQL hostname */
   define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
   
   /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
   //define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
   
   /** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
   //define('DB_COLLATE', '');
   

Answer 2

To convert to HTML entities:

<?php
  echo mb_convert_encoding(
    file_get_contents('http://www.tvrage.com/quickinfo.php?show=Surviver&ep=20x02&exact=0'),
    "HTML-ENTITIES",
    "UTF-8"
  );
?>

See docs for mb_convert_encoding for more encoding options.

Answer 3

I looked at the link, and it looks like UTF-8 to me. i.e., in Firefox, if you pick View, Character Encoding, UTF-8, it will appear correctly.

So, you just need to figure out how to get your PHP code to process that as UTF-8. Good luck!

Answer 4

You Should check encode encoding origin then try to convert to correct encode type.

In my case, I read csv files then import to db. Some files displays well some not. I check encoding and see that file with encoding ASCII displays well, other file with UTF-8 is broken. So I use following code to convert encoding:

if(mb_detect_encoding($content) == 'UTF-8') {
    $content = iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT", $content);
    file_put_contents($file_path, $content);
} else {
    $content = mb_convert_encoding($content, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');
    file_put_contents($file_path, $content);
}

After convert I push the content to file then process import to DB, now it displays well in front-end

Answer 5

try this :

html_entity_decode(mb_convert_encoding(stripslashes($text), "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8'))

Answer 6

It sounds like you're using standard string functions on a UTF8 characters (’) that doesn't exist in ISO 8859-1. Check that you are using Unicode compatible PHP settings and functions. See also the multibyte string functions.