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

I know the question was answered but setting meta tag didn't help in my case and selected answer was not clear enough, so I wanted to provide simpler answer.

So to keep it simple, store string into a variable and process that like this

$TVrageGiberish = "It’s Getting the Best of Me";

$notGiberish = mb_convert_encoding($TVrageGiberish, "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8');

echo $notGiberish;

Which should return what you wanted It’s Getting the Best of Me

If you are parsing something, you can perform conversion while assigning values to a variable like this, where $TVrage is array with all the values, XML in this example from a feed that has tag "Title" which may contain special characters such as ‘ or ’.

$cleanedTitle = mb_convert_encoding($TVrage->title, "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8');