Re: slash trouble when editing text

Will the stripslashes() remove the slashes that are supposed to be in the file? Because often times there are slashes in the file that need to be there. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "CPT John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> To: "Matt Palermo" <mpalermo@vt.edu>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 >