Echo text including double quotes in PHP - php

Question

I have a $_GET[q] from the URL. I am trying to ECHO the search term back into the search box. Sometimes people might submit queries encapsulated in quotes and in these cases the ECHO interprets the search term
ECHO $_GET[q];
as:
ECHO ""search term"";
and as a result I get a blank search box. Search queries with a single quote, like: Peter's house, work fine.
When I use:
mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $_GET[q])
I only get a backslash in the search box.
How could I populate the search box with a search term encapsulated in double quotes?

Answer 1

You could also use:
echo str_replace('"','',$_GET[q]);
This will of course remove all double quotes, so if they may be valid somewhere in the search term then better might be:
echo str_replace('"','"',$_GET[q]);
Haven't tested this but this might also work:
echo html_entity_decode(htmlentities($_GET[q))

Answer 2

You could use addslashes
like this:
$t = 'peter "pan"';
echo addslashes($t); // outputs: peter \"pan\"

Answer 3

You can try:
$str = "Hello World!";
echo $str . "<br>";
echo chop($str,"");
Ouptput:
Hello World
Explanation:
The chop() function, helps you chop off the quotes anyone might add to string.
You can manipulate as appropriate for your code.

Answer 4

$str = preg_replace( '["|\']','', $_REQUEST['q'] );
echo( $str ); //no double, no single quotes, faster than str_replace when you have to make more than 1 call to str_replace
or...
$str = str_replace( '"','', $_REQUEST['q'] ); //no double quotes, faster than preg_replace when you only make one call to str_replace
echo( $str ); //no double quotes