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    copied!<p>I am reading some data from a remote file, got every thing working till the point when i write some specific lines to a text file.<br> problem here is, when i write something like <strong>Girl's Goldtone 'X' CZ Ring</strong> it becomes <strong><em>Girl &amp; apos;s Goldtone &amp;apos ;X &amp; apos; CZ Ring</em></strong> in txt file.<br> how do i write to txt file so that it retains text like written above and not show character code but actual character.<br> sample of my code. </p> <pre><code>$content_to_write = '&lt;li class="category-top"&gt;&lt;span class="top-span"&gt;&lt;a class="category-top" href="'.$linktext.'.html"&gt;'.$productName.'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;'."\r\n"; fwrite($fp, $content_to_write); $linktext = "Girls-Goldtone-X-CZ-Ring"; $productName = "Girl's Goldtone 'X' CZ Ring"; </code></pre> <p><strong>var_dump</strong> </p> <pre><code>string '&lt;li class="category-top"&gt;&lt;span class="top-span"&gt;&lt;a class="category-top" href="Stellar-Steed-Gallery-wrapped-Canvas-Art.html"&gt;&amp;apos;Stellar Steed&amp;apos; Gallery-wrapped Canvas Art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; </code></pre> <p>' (length=195)</p> <p><strong>Code</strong></p> <pre><code> $productName =$linktext; $linktext = str_replace(" ", "-", $linktext); $delChar = substr($linktext, -1); if($delChar == '.') { $linktext = substr($linktext, 0, -1); } $linktext = removeRepeated($linktext); $linktext = remove_invalid_char($linktext); $productName = html_entity_decode($productName); $content_to_write = '&lt;li class="category-top"&gt;&lt;span class="top-span"&gt;&lt;a class="category-top" href="'.$linktext.'.html"&gt;'.$productName.'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;'."\r\n"; var_dump($content_to_write); fwrite($fp, utf8_encode($content_to_write)); </code></pre>
 

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