How can PHP be used to output text from a MySQL database with both special characters and links included?

When outputting text from a MySQL database in PHP, special characters need to be properly encoded to prevent any issues with rendering. Additionally, any links included in the text need to be properly formatted to be clickable. To achieve this, you can use functions like htmlspecialchars() to encode special characters and preg_replace() to detect and convert URLs into clickable links. 

<?php
// Assuming $text contains the text retrieved from the MySQL database
$text = htmlspecialchars($text); // Encode special characters
$text = preg_replace('/(https?:\/\/\S+)/', '<a href="$1">$1</a>', $text); // Convert URLs to clickable links

echo $text; // Output the text with special characters encoded and links included
?>

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PHP MySQL special characters links outputting text

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