Re: Slash Problems When Using PHP and POST.

Check out the stripslashes and AddSlashes functions http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php "Corin Rathbone" <corinrathbone@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:MABBIIHDNNPNALNEIKIDMEDPCHAA.corinrathbone@yahoo.com... > I have created a php page that loads a file into a textarea. You can then > edit the file and click "Save" and it POSTS it to the same page (edit.php) > on the server. It saves it but it adds slashes before any speech marks (""). > Can somebody please help me with this. > > It changes: > <meta name="author" content="Corin Rathbone 2001"> > to: > <meta name=\"author\" content=\"Corin Rathbone 2001\"> > > Below is the code for the page edit.php: > <?php > include "config.php"; > > if(isset($save)){ > $fp = fopen("$file", "wb") or die("Could not open > file!"); > $worked = fwrite($fp, $contents) or die("Could not write file!"); > fclose($fp) or die("Could not close file!"); > $edit=false; > $save=true; > } > elseif(isset($file)){ > $fp = fopen("$file", "rb") or die("Could not open > file!"); > $contents = fread($fp, filesize($file)) or die("Could not read > file!"); > fclose($fp) or die("Could not close file!"); > $edit=true; > $save=false; > } > else{ > $edit=false; > $save=false; > } > > ?> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > > <html> > <head> > <title>Edit A File - File Explorer For <?php print($root_url);?></title> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1"> > <meta name="author" content="Corin Rathbone webmaster@corirn.org.uk"> > <meta name="copyright" content="Corin Rathbone 2001"> > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css"> > </head> > <body> > <!-- Start Of Page Content --> > > <div class="heading">Edit A File</div> > > <?php > if($edit){ > print( "Contents Of file: <b>" ); > print( "$file" ); > print( "</b>\n" ); > print( "<p align=\"center\">\n" ); > print( " <form action=\"edit.php\" method=\"post\" > >\n" ); > print( "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"file\" > value=\"" ); > print( "$file" ); > print( "\">\n" ); > print( "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"save\" > value=\"1\">" ); > print( " <textarea name=\"contents\" rows=\"25\" cols=\"90\">\n" ); > print( "$contents" ); > print( " </textarea><br>\n" ); > print( " <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Save\">\n" > ); > print( " </form>\n" ); > print( "</p>" ); > } > elseif($save){ > print( "<p align=\"center\">\n" ); > print( "File: <b>" ); > print( "$file" ); > if($worked){print( "</b> has been saved!" );} > else {print( "</b> has <b>not</b> been saved!" );} > print( "</p>" ); > } > else { > print( "<p align=\"center\"><b>Please Select A File To Be > Save!</b></p>" ); > } > ?> > > <!-- End Of Page Content --> > <BR><BR><BR> > <div class="copyright">&copy;<a > href="mailto:webmaster@corin.org.uk">Corin > Rathbone</a> 2001</div> > > </body> > </html> > > Regards, > Corin Rathbone > www.corin.org.uk >