www.php.net/stripslashes ---John Holmes...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:50 PM Subject: [PHP] text area with quotes > this seems so obvious yet it is giving me problems. > > I have a text area in a form that is passed to a php page to be > written to a database. first though It displays the contents of the > form in a preview page. then if everything is good the user click the > button and it write to the DB. I pass the contents of the text area > straight to the next page (i.e. $form_item_name) so i never mess with > the variable. > > now for the problem. > > when it displays the variable it adds the escape character (\) to any > ' or " in the text. if I resend the same document it adds more. how > do i get it to display 's and "s in a variable without php adding the > \?? > > > -- > Nathan Kline > i.e. Man in the Box > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
