Escaped Apostrophes and Quotes

My PHP output displays escaped apostrophes and quotes. Given the following example FORM and PHP3 script: index.html ============== <HTML> <HEAD></HEAD> <BODY> <FORM method="post" action="http://www.somedomain.com/myscript.php3"> Enter data: <INPUT type="text" name="mydata"><BR> <INPUT type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML> myscript.php3===================== <HTML> <HEAD></HEAD> <BODY> <?php print $mydata; ?> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> ====================== In the text field, if the user enters: I'm the the following is displayed by the PHP script: I\'m I've tried the following, with variations: print "$mydata"; print '$mydata'; echo $mydata; echo "$mydata"; printf ("%s",$mydata); I've tried: ereg_replace("\\","",$mydata); All have been unsuccessful on the web host that I use, which is Apache with PHP 3 That said, on another Apache server with PHP 3, I get the output I want and expect. That is, no back-slash precedes the apostrophe or quote. What do I need to do to eliminate the back-slash? thanks Richard L. Emery IT Sr. Project Manager