Re: Quotation Marks in <textarea>...</textarea>

you can still use this when printing out: print (stripslashes($Comments) . "\n"); "News.Php.Net" <k_c@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:20011009081553.8034.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi... I am having some difficulty with my quotation marks in a textarea HTML > tag and processed by a PHP form handling script. It seems that if you enter > a string in these tags that is surrounded by quotation marks, then you get a > backslash and quotation marks surrounding your string in the output. > > For example, if I am a user writing a message in a comments section of a > form: > > My dog's name is "Harry". We call him that because he is VERY hairy. > > And the form stores the above into a variable called $Comments, and I decide > to print out the result of this string: > > print ("$Comments\n"); > > I get: > > My dog's name is \"Harry\". We call him that because he is VERY hairy. > > As far as I know, PHP is supposed to display quotations in textareas without > incident and without the backslashes. Please let me know what I am doing > wrong. > > Thanks, > KC > >