Quotes """ in form textarea fields

I swear I googled for an hour first. A user enters in a textarea field of FORM1.php: Bob is "high" Submitted to FROM2.php we get: Bob is \"high\" In a hidden field in FROM2.php we store the value: <type="hidden", value="<? echo stripslashes($_POST['textarea']); ?>> Value now Bob is "high" Then from FROM2.php we Submit BACK to FROM1.php and enter it back into the textarea field with: <type="textarea", value="<? echo $_POST['hidden']); ?> we have; Bob is Everything after the first double quote is clobbered. I can fix this by putting this in FORM2.php: $APParea1 = $_POST['textarea']; $APParea1 = str_replace("\"","[QT]",$APParea1); and then back by putting this in FORM1.php: $APParea1 = $_POST['hidden']; $APParea1 = str_replace("[QT]","\"",$APParea1); <type="textarea", value="<? echo $APParea1; ?> BUT THIS must have happened many times a long long time ago to many good people and some smart function was developed, right? Thanks