Mysql + php with special characters like '(Apostrophe) and " (Quotation mark)

Question

I have been struggling with a small problem for a while. It\'s been there for years but it\'s just been an irritating problem and not a serious one, and I have just worked a

Answer 1

instead of using the old mysql* functions, use PDO and write parameterized queries - http://php.net/pdo