Re: newbie - PHP escaping trigger happy

IIRC. That's covered under magic quotes . You should be able to turn that off via a config switch in php.ini or .htaccess. -----Original Message----- From: Govinda <govinda@blisscode.com> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 20:21:10 To: PHP-General List<php-general@lists.php.net> Subject: [PHP] newbie - PHP escaping trigger happy Just a quick Q, which I know has to be in the docs somewhere, but I haven't come across it yet- PHP automatically escaping single and double quotes... how to turn it off? I.e.- in a form text input, someone inputs love's "influence" <grows> and on the posted page I get: love\'s \"influence\" WHen I wrap that with htmlspecialchars , then I get: love\&#039;s \&quot;influence\&quot; &lt;grows&gt; What I want is: love&#039;s &quot;influence&quot; &lt;grows&gt; ...in this case anyway. Probably if I understood why PHP was escaping the quotes, then I likely would want that behavior in those circumstances it was designed for... but not now, and I don't know how to turn it off. Thanks, -Govinda -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php