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

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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...

`echo 'Here goes your message with an apostrophe S like thi\'s ';` — k102, Aug 03 '12 at 09:29
+1 K102. You can read [that](http://php.net/manual/fr/function.echo.php) and, you want using doubleQuote in echo function : echo " it's me!" ; — Doc Roms, Aug 03 '12 at 09:32

score 37 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '12 at 09:31

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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";

answered Aug 03 '12 at 09:31

Madara's Ghost

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score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 13 '14 at 19:15

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Escape the quote using a backslash.

'hello\'s'

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

edited Jul 13 '14 at 19:15

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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answered Aug 03 '12 at 09:31

He Hui

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 12 '18 at 17:42

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.

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 09 '17 at 13:22

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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 ";

edited Aug 09 '17 at 13:22

Cody Gray - on strike

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answered Aug 03 '12 at 09:32

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 03 '12 at 09:41

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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.

answered Aug 03 '12 at 09:41

Prasanth

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 23 '19 at 02:22

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>';
        }

score -1 · Answer 7 · answered May 15 '20 at 17:32

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The problem may be that you are passing the variable through HTML in single quotes ''. If it is the case, try using double quotes: "".

answered May 15 '20 at 17:32

user13550601

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Welcome to StackOverflow. Please review existing answers to the questions. Try not to duplicate those, especially on questions that are 8 years old. – thelr May 15 '20 at 18:34

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