note 104204 added to function.stripslashes

Haha.. I love the example here. $s = "Let\'s post a plug for O\'Rielly"; Why anyone would use stripslashes to read this string is beyond me! In this case, the backslashes are useless since they are escaping single quotes in a double quoted string. But even if converting it to: $s = 'Let\'s post a plug for O\'rielly'; It would only act as a signal to the php interpreter that ' is not the end of the string... the string in memory WOULD NOT HAVE THE SLASHES. * You actually need the slashes in the string being stripped... it's stripping the slashes... no slashes, no stripping (er.. uh whatever) Try: $a = "\\\"This needs strip slashes\\\""; print $a . '<br />' . stripslashes($a); But watch out: You want to have a reasonable amount of certainty that the string was escaped (adding slashes) or you can corrupt your data. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 24.87.87.181 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/104204 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104204/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104204/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104204/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104204/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104204/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104204/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104204 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/104204 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php