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

Make sure your html header specifies utf8

That usually does the trick for me (obviously if the content IS utf8).

You don't need to convert to html entities if you set the content-type.