Re: UN-Escaping text from a form submit?
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Thu, 08 Feb 2001 03:57:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: UN-Escaping text from a form submit? | ||
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:17, John Vanderbeck wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I have a form that is used to submit data to my script. If the user
> enters something like:
>
> The title of this book doesn't really matter to "me"!
>
> When I get that back, and read it from the file, it always ends up
> like:
>
> The title of this book doesn\'t really matter to \"me\"!
>
> Note the addition of the escape sequences. How can I stop this? Is
> there some function in PHP? Or am I goign to have to write a character
> routine to strip out escape sequences? <shudder>
>
> - John Vanderbeck
> - Admin, GameDesign
addslashes and stripslashes are the functions you need.
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