Disallow encoding of existing HTML objects (convert & to but not to & amp; amp;)

Question

The data in my mysql database table has special characters such as "&".

When using then I need to convert them to &. I used htmlspecialchars to convert them to HTML objects.

But few records already have &, and he converts them to &I need them to be used as without conversion.

What to do?

Answer 1

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$text = 'Your text with &s from the database';
// Decode and re-encode the special characters.
$text = htmlspecialchars(htmlspecialchars_decode($text));

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$text = 'Your text with &s from the database';
// Decode and re-encode the special characters and other entities.
$text = htmlentities(html_entity_decode($text));

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Answer 2

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