Re: text area with quotes
| From: | Justin French | Date: | Thu, 01 Aug 2002 01:49:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: text area with quotes | ||
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check out strip_slashes() or stripslashes() [can never remember which one!!]
in the manual.
Justin French
on 01/08/02 5:50 AM, Nathan Kline (mitb@mitb.net) wrote:
> 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
> \??
>