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

For fopen and file_put_contents, this will work:

str_replace("’", "'", htmlspecialchars_decode(mb_convert_encoding($string_to_be_fixed, "HTML-ENTITIES", "UTF-8")));