How to use single quote inside an echo which is using single quote

Question

First of all, i have gone through the related questions.. haven't found any answer.. I m using this code to display a message

echo 'Here goes your message with an apostrophe S like thi's ';

How can i make this work, as any quote inside this echo will break the statement...

Answer 1

Either escape the quote with a backslash, or use double quotes to designate the string.

echo 'Here goes your message with an apostrophe S like thi\'s';

echo "Here goes your message with an apostrophe S like thi's";

Answer 2

Escape the quote using a backslash.

'hello\'s'

The single quote that appears after the backslash will appear on screen.

Answer 3

Have you tried the function addslashes()? It even uses your example.

I personally prefer the function htmlspecialchars() which does the same thing but has flags which let you specify its behavior.

like so:

echo htmlspecialchars("O'Rielly", ENT_QUOTES);

This shows the string properly on an HTML webpage.

Answer 4

echo <<<EOT
You can put what ever you want here.. HTML, " ' ` anyting will go
Here goes your message with an apostrophe S like thi's
EOT;

Be sure to read this before using such kind of strings.

Answer 5

In PHP, the escape sequence character is the backslash (\). You can add this before special characters to ensure that those characters are displayed as literals. For example:

echo 'Here goes your message with an apostrophe S like thi\'s ';

Or you can also write like this:

echo "Here goes your message with an apostrophe S like thi's ";

Answer 6

Since the methods from the answers didn't work for my situation I ended up just calling a new echo everytime the type of quote changed through the code and swapped the type of quote to start the echo, it's 2019 now and I don't know about any other solution since I am really new to programming but this worked fine for me, example:

        else {
          echo '<a onclick="document.getElementById(';
          echo "'open_login').style.display='block'";
          echo '" class="branding w3-bar-item w3-button w3-mobile w3-light-blue w3-hover-white w3-right"href="#login"><span class="fa fa-user"></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;Login do Aluno</a>';
        }