Re: Magic Quotes or Curley Quotes or Something

Lance Earl wrote:

I recently upgraded my server. It is running Ubuntu Linux with PHP and MySQL. My site allows people to post content to their own web oages through a web interface. Many of my customers compose their content on a word processer and then cust and paste it to the web interface for insertion to the database and later retrevial and display on a web page. The problem I am having is that content which includes quotes is is not being seen correctly. Rather than inserting a slashed quote (/"), it

I don't think it's the root of your problem but I think you mean an espaced quote - i.e. one that been 'backslashed' - \"

inserts a bunch of strange formatted gunk. A sample of the problem anc be seen at www.dallypost.com/ranch/page5688.php

Marco seems to be right about the encoding - but I can;t admit to even knowing half as much as him about that topic (make me dizzy everytime!) so I won't attempt to thicken the plot sp to speak. g'luck

Thanks