Re: getting rid of bad characters

Have you tried using htmlentities()? It should convert stuff like double-quotes (") to it's associated HTML entity which, when echo'd to the browser, will be displayed as " again. Good for safe output. Not so good for storing in a database (which you'd probably want to use whatever your database's "escape_string" function is). -TG = = = Original message = = = I having been looking for some snippet to help me with changing MS Word double, quotes, single quotes and other characters to acceptable HTML safe characters. The problem comes about when the people using the forms paste large articles from Word into the form, I do a normal check and add slashes but lately they have been getting lazy and using the special characters from Word. ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.