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

I usually stick with those 2 easy options, both equally efficient:

1. You can encapsulate one type of quotes in the other type

$var = " here single quotes ' are encapsulated in double quotes";
$var = 'here double quotes " are encapsulated in single quotes';

1. you can escape quotes by using \

$var = "just quote some mathematician: \"quot erat demonstrandum\".";