Re: Why do form submissions need stripslashes() invocations?

Heloorghhh !!! Well, try to make a script with : <?php echo "bob says : \"hello, brother !!! \" "; echo " bob says : "hello, brother !!! " "; ?> then, look at the output to see where the error is !!!! well, php's got to know which of the quotes means "end of string" an which is a part of the string... so, parts of the string must be backslashed in every function using it .... when submitting a form php assumes that the string will be processed in a function and protects it. sorry for my medium english. ----- Original Message ----- From: Neil Zanella <nzanella@cs.mun.ca> To: PHP General Mailing List <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:18 AM Subject: [PHP] Why do form submissions need stripslashes() invocations? > > Hello, > > I would like to know why PHP adds slashes to the double quote, > single quote, and backslash characters when submitting a form. > In particular it would be nice if the PHP manual or some other > manual mentioned this but I could not find any official > documentation on this issue. Why does PHP add the > slashes in the first place? (I'm using PHP 4.0.4pl1 > and don't know if this is just a bug or whether > it was meant to be this way). > > Thanks, > > Neil > > > -- > 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 >