note 87468 added to tutorial.forms

Ok, here's something that's really been tripping me up-- I've been trying to create a new HTML file and write to it using a string returned from a form on the previous page. No problem, except that the way PHP handles actually writing to the file inlcudes using slashes ("\") where all the normally special characters are. I don't want that to appear on my website. I've exhausted every resource I could find trying to figure out this apparently simple issue. "htmlentities()" is not what I'm looking for, either. Someone write a freaking tutorial on THAT already... james ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 98.198.173.35 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/87468 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87468/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87468/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87468/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87468/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87468/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87468/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87468 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/87468 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php