Re: quotes in text strings
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:05:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: quotes in text strings | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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In article <F72Y5wOqGp8wx4Otaz900007d2c@hotmail.com>, codareef@hotmail.com
says...
> Hi
>
> Single quote's in strings entered via a text input field are subsequently
> appearing with what appears to be an escape character -
>
> comm\'ents
>
> how can i correct this? I've tried
> htmlspecialchars($string, ENT_QUOTES);
> and
> htmlentities($string, ENT_QUOTES);
>
> but these don't seem to work (maybe its me).
stripslashes() is the immediate solution, but you might also want to
consider the various 'magic_quotes' settings in your php.ini
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David Robley
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