My webpage display ' and not '

Question

I have a php script which return a JSON, and a js function which parse this JSON. In my php I did a htmlspecialchars but when I display value in my webpage ' isn't replace by ' same for " any idea ?

Answer 1

If you are seeing ' on the page, you have probably double-encoded your string somewhere along the lines.

Encoding the string the first time changes ' to '.

Encoding the string a second time changes ' to '.

The result of this is that you see the code, not the char - as the web page converts the & to & visually, and ignores the rest.

Answer 2

Use html_entity_decode() with ENT_QUOTES

$string = "test '";
echo html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES);

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Output:

test '

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DEMO http://ideone.com/pZdJOa

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