Thanks everyone..Seems it was a very simple thing <blush> I had searched
around on the PHP site, but i'm tired, and I must have missed it. Thanks!
- John Vanderbeck
- Admin, GameDesign
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Robley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Vanderbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] UN-Escaping text from a form submit?
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:17, John Vanderbeck wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I have a form that is used to submit data to my script. If the user
> > enters something like:
> >
> > The title of this book doesn't really matter to "me"!
> >
> > When I get that back, and read it from the file, it always ends up
> > like:
> >
> > The title of this book doesn\'t really matter to \"me\"!
> >
> > Note the addition of the escape sequences. How can I stop this? Is
> > there some function in PHP? Or am I goign to have to write a character
> > routine to strip out escape sequences? <shudder>
> >
> > - John Vanderbeck
> > - Admin, GameDesign
>
> addslashes and stripslashes are the functions you need.
>
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