Cannot remove double quotes from string PHP

Question

Have tried every solution here and still nothing. This is var_dump string(19) ""Example"" . I just need to remove double quotes from name so "Example" should be Example Tried with trim, preg_replace, substr .

I think that there is problem somewhere else but I dont have much experience with PHP so I am stuck.

Answer 1

Here we go:

<?php
$str = '""Example""';
$str = str_replace('"', '', $str);
echo $str;
?>

You can even see a demo on ideone.com .

Answer 2

If

str_replace('"', '', $a)

does not work, maybe that is not a single double quote, but it's analogue, like ¨

Answer 3

Try trim($string, '"'); and take some time to learn about HTML entities .

What's happening is the double quotes are html entities, so as you've seen in var_dump the string is not "Movie Title" but &x#22;Movie Title&x#22; . There is no literal double quote in the string for the function to trim, so it fails. You need to trim the entity instead.

Answer 4

这工作：

$string = trim(html_entity_decode($string),'"');