Retrieving data from a database

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November 15th, 2012, 11:50 PM

zxcvbnm

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Retrieving data from a database

Hello;

I am now dealing with a massive database that different resources enter data into it. I don't see the queries that enter data into it. What I have to do is to retrieve the data but I have some issues with HTML characters and...

For example:  

There 2 didn't do much:

PHP Code:


		
			
 htmlspecialchars($place['comments']);

htmlentities($place['comments']);

but for some reason this works occasionally:

PHP Code:


		
			
 html_entity_decode($place['comments']);

What is the best way to retrieve the data from such database?

Thank you

November 16th, 2012, 04:37 AM

Jacques1

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Hi,

do want to translate HTML entities into the actual characters or the other way round?

Because htmlentities() and html_entity_decode() are the exact opposite of each other.

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