Re: forms addslashes ?

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 05:27, Mukta Telang wrote: > Hi, > I want to add slashes to a string, if it contains quotation marks and > which is received as input from a form, so that I can enter it to a > database. > What I am doing is as follows: > > echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"title\">; > $title=addslashes($title); > > But the string that gets added has a lot of slashes! > How should this be done? > Mukta Do you mean that there are two slashes everywhere there should be one, or that they are inserted where you do not expect them? It's slashes doubling up on you, you may have magic_quotes_gpc enabled in php.ini. magic_quotes_gpc is explained here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc You can check whether it's turned on with: http://www.php.net/get_magic_quotes_gpc http://www.php.net/get_magic_quotes_runtime So if that's the case, you could either disable magic_quotes in php.ini, or else test whether it's turned on and then decide whether to call addslashes(). Torben -- Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> +1.604.709.0506 http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.inflatableeye.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.themainonmain.com -----==== Boycott Starbucks! http://www.haidabuckscafe.com ====-----