how i used special characters in html content in php mysql

Question

<p>This is Jhone's home.</p>

This is not display in my front site. but

When I use <p>This is Jhone\\'s home.</p> It display.

I need to put without backslash. How can I do?

Answer 1

htmlspecialchars will help you out.

<?php
$str = "<p>This is Jhone's home.</p>";
echo htmlspecialchars($str);
?>

Answer 2

Using ENT_QUOTES as the second argument to htmlspecialchars will convert the quotations marks. Also, it is extremely important to provide the correct charset.

echo htmlspecialchars("This is Jhone's home.", ENT_QUOTES', 'UTF-8');

The translations that are performed are:

'&' (ampersand) becomes '&'
'"' (double quote) becomes '"' when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set.
"'" (single quote) becomes ''' (or ') only when ENT_QUOTES is set.
'<' (less than) becomes '&lt;'
'>' (greater than) becomes '&gt;'

So if you view the source on the browser, your output will be this:

This is Jhone"s home.