writing special characters to txt file
<p>I am reading some data from a remote file, got every thing working till the point when i write some specific lines to a text file.<br>
problem here is, when i write something like <strong>Girl's Goldtone 'X' CZ Ring</strong> it becomes <strong><em>Girl &amp; apos;s Goldtone &amp;apos ;X &amp; apos; CZ Ring</em></strong> in txt file.<br>
how do i write to txt file so that it retains text like written above and not show character code but actual character.<br>
sample of my code.  </p>

<pre><code>$content_to_write = '&lt;li class="category-top"&gt;&lt;span class="top-span"&gt;&lt;a class="category-top" href="'.$linktext.'.html"&gt;'.$productName.'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;'."\r\n";
                fwrite($fp, $content_to_write);  
$linktext = "Girls-Goldtone-X-CZ-Ring";  
$productName = "Girl's Goldtone 'X' CZ Ring";  
</code></pre>

<p><strong>var_dump</strong>  </p>

<pre><code>string '&lt;li class="category-top"&gt;&lt;span class="top-span"&gt;&lt;a class="category-top" href="Stellar-Steed-Gallery-wrapped-Canvas-Art.html"&gt;&amp;apos;Stellar Steed&amp;apos; Gallery-wrapped Canvas Art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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<p><strong>Code</strong></p>

<pre><code>                $productName =$linktext;


                $linktext = str_replace(" ", "-", $linktext);
                $delChar = substr($linktext, -1);
                if($delChar == '.')
                {
                    $linktext = substr($linktext, 0, -1);
                }

                $linktext = removeRepeated($linktext);
                $linktext = remove_invalid_char($linktext);
                $productName = html_entity_decode($productName);
                $content_to_write = '&lt;li class="category-top"&gt;&lt;span class="top-span"&gt;&lt;a class="category-top" href="'.$linktext.'.html"&gt;'.$productName.'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;'."\r\n";
                var_dump($content_to_write);
                fwrite($fp, utf8_encode($content_to_write));
</code></pre>
