Handling apostrophes when generating HTML with PHP

Question

I am generating radio buttons based on an XML config values. Sometimes they have apostrophes in the text. When manipulating this data in PHP, I seem to lose everything after

Answer 1

You can escape the quotes in the string: value='Government wants to limit employers' communications about unionization' Escaping it will cause this problem to stop.

PHP does give functions for this, in case your information is in a variable. Just use htmlspecialchars