Re: question about '

Hi there, The problem is the data is already in the DB, it was mass-added with the ' already there, what I need is a way to retrieve the ' that is already in the DB. Thanks Chris > yes, by adding stripslashes it will somewhat escape those quotes ('), > but when displaying the results there will not be any need to do so. > unless it is your wish to actually store the backslash into the db. > > > Jerry wrote: > > >I think you should use addslashes to store the text in the database and > >then stripslashes when displaying the text. I think that should work, > >but I'm new to PHP so I might be wrong. > > > >Jerry > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Chris Payne [mailto:chris@planetoxygene.com] > >Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 2:11 PM > >To: php > >Subject: [PHP-DB] question about ' > > > > > >Hi there everyone, > > > >I am having alittle problem. I am calling some text that has a ' in it > >in the DB, but when it is being displayed on the screen the ' becomes a > >? any ideas? I'm displaying just with a <?=$ctitle?> and everything > >works great except that. I just read about addslashes and stripslashes > >etc ..... but not sure if that's relevant to this being that the data in > >the DB has a single ' already there. > > > >Anyway help would be appreciated :-) > > > >Regards > > > >Chris > > > > > > > > > >