Re: Issues with backslashes and GET data

Have you tried the stripslashes() function? That will "unescape" characters that have been escaped. On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Martin Selway wrote:

I use a php page which is supposed to return records from a database table limited to the servername specicified in a drop down menu. A servername may contain a backslash e.g. Server1\SQL1. When this data is returned from the URL e.g. $server = $_GET['server']; The name is returned as Server1\\SQL1, so the search fails. I've tried using a regular expression to remove one of the backslashes: $server = ereg_replace("\\", "\", $server); but I can't get this to work either. Any suggestions welcome, I'm running out of ideas. Martin --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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