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... in short they are there to ease db insertions. On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 05:23:02PM -0500, Brian V Bonini wrote: > I'm passing an html email from a form > like this: > > $message = $message_html; > > where message_html is the text area name. > > mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); > > I end up with, for example: > > <div align=center\"> > <table width=550\" border=0\" cellspacing=0\" cellpadding=0\"> > <tr> > <td bgcolor=#01405A\"><img > src=http://www.gfx-design.com/vantico/spacer.gif\" width=1\" height=10\" > alt=\" border=0\"></td> > </tr> > > it's trying to escape the quotes and at times completely > cutting them out. > > The same snippet prior to being sent: > > <div align="center"> > <table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> > <tr> > <td bgcolor="#01405A"><img > src="http://www.gfx-design.com/vantico/spacer.gif" width="1" height="10" > alt="" border="0"></td> > </tr> > > Why is this happening? How can I stop it? > > -brian > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Hank Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.yerpso.net GPG Id: 2BB5E60C Fingerprint: D807 61BC FD18 370A AC1D 3EDF 2BF9 8A2D 2BB5 E60C *** Web Development: PHP, MySQL/PgSQL - Network Admin: Debian/FreeBSD *** PHP Instructor - Intnl. Webmasters Assn./HTML Writers Guild *** Beginning PHP -- Starts January 7, 2002 *** See http://www.hwg.org/services/classes -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]