Re: htmlentities

On Saturday 06 April 2002 18:34, Joerg Hanke [ML-php] wrote: > hi! > > i've got the following problem and hope one of you is able to help me > solving that: > > i've got a system in php that writes data (e.g. variable-name = $data) > to a mysql database. there are two more scripts: one for displaying the > data and one for writing the data into a formular. the displaying-script > includes a link to the formular-script which submits the values for > $data. i use the command 'htmlentities' to express the value (there is > an html-tag like <img src="http:...">) > correctly. when the > formular-script is executed via this link i get a wrong result: <img > src=\"....\"> there are these backslashes... > > > what 2 do?? You most likely have "magic_quotes_runtime" enabled in php.ini. Either disable it or use stripslashes() on the data you retrieve from the db. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Loan-department manager: "There isn't any fine print. At these interest rates, we don't need it." */