mysql + addslashes + stripslashes

Hi, My question is about the norlmal behaviour of PHP and MYSQL but I cant explain it without a simple example. Thank you for reading: I have the following code: -------------------------------------------------------------------- <?php print $t = $_POST['txt']; print $t = addslashes($t); @ $db = mysql_pconnect(xxx,xxx,xxx); mysql_select_db('test'); $q = "update ttable set ffield='$t'"; mysql_query($q); $q = "select * from ttable"; $result = mysql_query($q); $bo = mysql_fetch_array($result); print $t = $bo['ffield']; print $t = stripslashes($t); ?> -------------------------------------------------------------------- from a HTML form I send variable: -------------------------------------------------------------------- ' \ \' \\ \\\ -------------------------------------------------------------------- after addshashes it becomes: -------------------------------------------------------------------- \' \\ \\\' \\\\ \\\\\\ -------------------------------------------------------------------- after that it gets in the database but after I get it out it becomes: -------------------------------------------------------------------- ' \ \' \\ \\\ -------------------------------------------------------------------- (without the backslashes!) and ofcourse after stripslashes it gets messed-up: -------------------------------------------------------------------- ' ' \ \ -------------------------------------------------------------------- So my question is if this is a normal behaviour for PHP+MYSQL or it may vary indifferent conficurations or versions of both php or mysql. It's not a bad thing to be like that but I wonder if my code will behave the same at most systems. Thank you very much