Re: slash trouble when editing text

Sounds like you have magic quotes turned on in your php.ini. I would check that out. Alex > 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 >> > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >