Re: slash trouble when editing text

Use stripslashes() to remove the slashes. Use htmlentities() on the text before you put it into the <textarea>, also. ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Palermo" <mpalermo@vt.edu> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:16 PM Subject: [PHP] slash trouble when editing text I wrote a small script that creates a link to all the .php and .txt files in a given directory. When one of these links is clicked, it brings up another window with the files contents inserted into a text area. From there the user can edit the text file then click a submit button to make the changes. The problem is whenever the file contains quotes, when the file gets edited it puts a slash in front of every quote. Like this. // original .txt file "these are quotes" Then when the submit buttons is clicked, the file looks like this: // edited .txt file \"these are quotes\" If submit is pressed again, then it will look like this: // twice edited file \\"these are quotes\\" Does anyone know how I can avoid this from happening? Thanks. Matt