Re: Question about escaping a character

a ha! I'll actually correct you by saying that I need to run stripslashes() when I'm reading the file, not writing it, as I just did, and now it works. :) chris ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Scott <bscott@covalent.net> To: Chris Cocuzzo <cuzo@mediaone.net> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [PHP]Question about escaping a character > Run the string through stripslashes() before you write > it to the file... > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php > > Cheers > -bob > > -- > Bob Scott Web / DB Developer > http://www.covalent.net Covalent Technologies, Inc. > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Chris Cocuzzo wrote: > > > hey- > > > > I have a textarea field for an admin page which does allow me to enter in > > basically anything, including HTML. The information is written to a > > text-file, from which info is pulled on a different page. When the info is > > read on that page(this is not the admin page right here)...all the single > > quote marks are escaped with a backslash. how do i fix that so that the > > quotes look normal when the file is read? > > > > chris > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >