Re: stripslashes()

Well, only diff is it's a POST from a textarea. With magicquotes on, you're right, it makes "Thank's" become "Thank\'s". how can I get rid of that? I'm posting it to a text file. -Dade --- Ernest E Vogelsinger <ernest@vogelsinger.at> wrote: > At 01:48 02.03.2003, Dade Register said: > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > >I know this is probably an easy question, but I am > >using stripslashes() on a textarea var, and I don't > >think it's working. It doesn't error, but in the > >testarea it doesn't seem to work. Ex: > > > >$var = "Thank's"; > >$var = stripslashes($var); > >echo $var; > >Output = Thank\'s > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > > This can't work since there are no slashes to > strip... > > stripslashes() strips certain slashes from a string. > Assume you have a > textarea where the user enters "Thank's", so PHP > converts this to > "Thank\'s" (assuming magic_quotes is set to on). > Using stripslashes() here > will get rid of these slashes. > > BTW - the sample you've sent will output "Thank's" - > what are you doing > what you didn't show? > > > -- > >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger > (\) ICQ #13394035 > ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/ > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/