Re: Problem with special characters
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:01:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Problem with special characters | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Sunday 24 March 2002 17:51, N. Pari Purna Chand wrote:
> When a form is submitting data to another php page
> it is sending specialcharacters with escape sequences added.
>
> Ex : <Input type=text value="c:\programfiles\" name=var1>
> & when i do an
> echo $var1;
> in the submitted php page
> it is showing "c:\\programfiles\\" instead of "c:\programfiles\"
>
> Howto overcome this ?
Look up the following in the manual:
php.ini > magic_quotes_gpc
stripslashes()
addslashes()
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