I have used HTML:Entities encode_entities($text) to convert all the quotes, ampersands, and the like in my text in order to be able to do an 'insert' of the text into MySQL.

Now my problem is how to search on this text (or a subset of it) with all the HTML numbers in it. In other words, how can I search on "Apples & Oranges" when the actual text now in the table is "Apples & Oranges"?

I thought maybe I should just remove the HTML numbers (such as #8220; and &) and settle for that.

I feel a little sheepish in asking this, since it seems something that I should know. In fact though this seems like a problem many people have, and that there probably is some consistent ways to address it. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with such an approach.

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