Getting ’ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP

Question

I've tried converting the text to or from utf8, which didn't seem to help.

I'm getting:

"It’s Getting the Best of Me" 

It should be:

"It’s Getting the Best of Me" 

I'm getting this data from this url.

Answer 1

To convert to HTML entities:

<?php   echo mb_convert_encoding(     file_get_contents('http://www.tvrage.com/quickinfo.php?show=Surviver&ep=20x02&exact=0'),     "HTML-ENTITIES",     "UTF-8"   ); ?> 

See docs for mb_convert_encoding for more encoding options.

Answer 2

Make sure your html header specifies utf8

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> 

That usually does the trick for me (obviously if the content IS utf8).

You don't need to convert to html entities if you set the content-type.