What are common issues with MySQL output in PHP, specifically when displaying escaped characters like "Peter\'s"?

When displaying escaped characters like "Peter\'s" from MySQL in PHP, the issue is that the backslash is being displayed along with the character. To solve this, you can use the stripslashes() function in PHP to remove the backslashes before displaying the text. 

// Retrieve the data from MySQL
$data = "Peter\'s";

// Remove backslashes from the data
$clean_data = stripslashes($data);

// Display the cleaned data
echo $clean_data;

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MySQL PHP escaped characters display output

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