Re: Shift_JIS Character Set

On Friday 12 December 2003 14:47, Ng Hwee Hwee wrote: > i'm doing a form (form.php) > 1) user comes to form.php > 2) user enters details and press submit > 3) details get passed to form action verify.php > 4) verify.php puts all the $_POST into an array $formVars > 5) verify.php session_register("formVars") > 6) if there is an error, verify.php sends user back to form.php > 7) form.php echos all the $formVars (i.e. details that user has previously > entered) in their respective textfields, together with the error messages > > i need to stripslashes at Step7 because as you have mentioned in a previous > post on this list, magic_quotes_gpc added slashes to all my $_POST. Thus, > since I need to echo them, I need to stripslashes.. I tried echoing the > $formVars without the stripslashes and I see all the slashes before the > quotes and backslashes etc.. so, by right, with English characters, i still > need to stripslashes. OK, if you *know* that the data has been through addslashes() (or equivalent eg magic_quotes_gpc) then doing a strip_slashes() should revert the data to its original form. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-db ------------------------------------------ /* The sheep that fly over your head are soon to land. */