Escape special characters from

Question

In the code below, the privacy_policy.html file has several special characters, including some apostrophes. The function below works fine, however, the contents of the privacy_policy.html file are truncated at the first occurance of the apostrophe.

I'm trying the mysql_escape_string (have also tried "real") to no avail...

$my_privacy_policy = file_get_contents(ABSPATH.'/wp-content/plugins/myplugin/privacy_policy.html');
$my_post3['post_content'] = mysql_escape_string($my_privacy_policy);

Answer 1

mysql_escape_string is deprecated - I would recommend looking at another function to accomplish what you're trying to do. That alone may fix your problem.