Re: PHP HTML text editor issues...

* Thus wrote Tim Traver: > Hi all, > > ok, I've made my own version of a file manager complete with a text editor, > and I'm having troubles figuring out some issues. > ... > > I've tried to use addslashes and stripslashes to prevent some of the > clobbering of the text, but it doesn't seem to be working. If I don't do > anything, it looks like PHP (or HTML) backslashes all quotes... > > I just want to get the EXACT text that is in the textarea to be saved to > disk... > > Here is an example of a line that gets clobbered : > > $value =~ tr/\0//d; > > I read the file in from disk using file_get_contents. Does that do any > translation ??? file_get_contents doesn't do any filtering. The issue your you're probably running into is that magic_quotes_gpc is set to On. This will addslashes to all your data by default. Two options: 1. Turn it off. 2. apply strip_slashes() to the string before writing to disk Curt -- First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No, sir. Our model is the trapezoid!