PHP html decoding help - converting: A 'quote' is bold

Question

I need to convert a string like this:

A 'quote' is bold

into:

A \'quote\' is 

        

Answer 1

mb_convert_encoding($string, "UTF-8", "HTML-ENTITIES");

You can replace "UTF-8" with whatever encoding you need (though depending on the encoding you choose, certain characters may not be representable).