Newbie problem - Slashes

Hello all, I'm a newbie into PHP and am facing a funny problem. I have a form with a textarea named address, I am able to submit the form and enter the data into the database without any problem,but to make sure that it handles "bad" data too I tested it out with this sentance: When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say? then "previewed" it and the output was, (note the slash ) When cheese gets it\'s picture taken, what does it say? (even entered into the database without a problem) so I further tested it with: (note the " instead of the ') When cheese gets it"s picture taken, what does it say? and the output was: When cheese gets it\"s picture taken, what does it say? but when I looked in the database it only showed When cheese gets it\ any idea what the problem is? is it my fault or PHP's or MySql's? sorry if its a bit confusing, if need be I can send you all the 3 files i'm using and the table structure, kindly help. - Kim.