How to prevent &amp;#41; from being inserted in a Database in PHP?
<p>I am working on a PHP/MySQL script that is inserting data into a database like this...</p>

<pre><code>Caesar &amp;amp;#40;courtesy post&amp;amp;#41;
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<p>I know this is a basic question but how can I prevent the special characters from doing that?</p>
