I am inserting escaped data in database using core PHP.
$collect = $conn->real_escape_string($value);
$sql = "INSERT INTO data (collect) VALUES ('$collect')";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
echo ' : New record created successfully ';
} else {
echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn->error;
}
Records are created successfully. But when I output data from same database using laravel 5.1, it shows weird characters like “ and †instead of "". I am outputting data like this in .blade.php file.
@foreach ($data as $d)
{{ $d->collect }}<br />
@endforeach
If I output data using core PHP then output is perfect. In core PHP I am outputting data like this.
$sql = "SELECT collect FROM data";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo " collect: ".$row["collect"]."<br>";
}
} else {
echo "0 results";
}
How can I output data using laravel 5 correctly?