RE: [PHP] Strange emergence of \

> > I have a simple form that collects some data, one field being a textarea. > The file sends the info to itself for errorchecking, then makes a call to > a MySQL database and enters the info. Along the way however, whenever i > put a ' in the textarea field, for example: Microsoft's engineers are > weenies, in the end, Microsoft\'s engineers are weenies gets input into > the database. Is this something to do with textarea? I don't do anything > strange to the string....ne help appreciated... > Jack Dempsey Hi Jack see here www.php.net/addslashes and www.php.net/stripslashes because mysql uses ' as part of it's queries, you need to escape them when entering them into the db so it won't get confused. The reason why it's adding the slashes on it's own is something to do with one of the settings in your php.ini, I can't remember which one, but I'm sure someone will fill in the blanks :-) M@