How can PHP developers ensure that special characters are not affected when writing data to files using form inputs?

Special characters can be preserved when writing data to files by using the `htmlspecialchars` function to encode the input data before writing it to the file. This function will convert special characters into their HTML entities, ensuring that they are not interpreted as code when the file is read. 

// Get form input data
$inputData = $_POST['input_data'];

// Encode special characters using htmlspecialchars
$encodedData = htmlspecialchars($inputData);

// Write encoded data to file
$file = fopen("data.txt", "w");
fwrite($file, $encodedData);
fclose($file);

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PHP special characters file writing form inputs data security

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