Re: posting text that contains a '

There's a few magic quotes directives in the php.ini which *may* have been changed or had different defaults on a recent upgrade, which may explain the recent problem -- check out the settings with PHP info, and then read up in the manual or php.ini comments to decide what settings you want. I prefer to leave them as they are for you right now, and instead of preg_repalce, use strip_slashes() [or is it stripslashes()??] to strip out the slashes. <TEXTAREA name="foo"><?=strip_slashes($myText)?></TEXTAREA> <INPUT type="text" name="foo2" value="<?=strip_slashes($myText)?>"> Lemme know if you need more help. Justin French on 05/08/02 1:41 PM, Police Trainee (policetrainee@yahoo.com) wrote: > I've recently noticed that when i post text from a > textarea field to a text file that ' (single quotes) > are written as /' > if i have the textarea field include the text that was > posted to the file, it displays /' for all the single > quotes. if i post the textarea field again, it posts > the /' as //'. this cycle continues endlessly. > > I have compensated for this by sending the output > through a preg_replace to get rid of all the > backslashes. > > The reason I am writing is because this entire problem > has only started happening recently. I used to be able > to post textarea field data and recall it back into > the textarea field verbatim character per character. > What is causing this to change? > > I am running apache 1.3.20 on a linux system with php 4.2.1 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com