How can one ensure that special characters in HTML content do not interfere with the MySQL insertion process in PHP?

Special characters in HTML content can interfere with the MySQL insertion process in PHP if they are not properly escaped or sanitized. To ensure that special characters do not cause issues, you can use the mysqli_real_escape_string function in PHP to escape the special characters before inserting the data into the database. 

// Assuming $conn is the MySQL database connection object
$html_content = "<h1>Hello, world!</h1>";
$escaped_content = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn, $html_content);

// Insert the escaped content into the database
$query = "INSERT INTO table_name (content) VALUES ('$escaped_content')";
mysqli_query($conn, $query);

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PHP MySQL htmlentities prepared statements escaping

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