Re: Re: stripslashes() strips too much...

Removed the stripslashes() and all is good...thank! I didn't know the db will strip the slashes. Tyler Longren Captain Jack Communications tyler@captainjack.com www.captainjack.com On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:49:46 +0100 "Peter Clarke" <peterNO@SPAMjingo.com> wrote: > > "Tyler Longren" <tyler@captainjack.com> wrote in message > news:20010810111203.1553b8f5.tyler@captainjack.com... > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've written a small forum. I addslashes() on the message before it > goes > > into the database. I stripslashes() before the message is displayed > on > > the page. That all works fine. But if I have a message like this: > > "It's in C:\Windows" > > there's trouble. The \ gets striped out, so it's then "It's in > > C:Windows"; > > > > Does anyone know anyway to get around this? I've been thinking about > it, > > but can't come up with anything. > > > > Thanks, > > Tyler Longren > > Captain Jack Communications > > tyler@captainjack.com > > www.captainjack.com > > > > The database will strip the slashes as they go in as they are escapes > for > the db also... > > This was discussed recently on alt.php.sql : > > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&th=57ea31ab2e83928b,7 > especially message number 4 > > > Peter > > > -- > 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