note 8263 added to AddSlashes

From: Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 23:36:46 +0000
Subject: note 8263 added to AddSlashes
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hi...i am having lots of trouble with the addslashes.. i am using the following to strip < > and | from a form input for(reset($HTTP_POST_VARS); $key=key($HTTP_POST_VARS); next($HTTP_POST_VARS)) { $this = addslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS[$key]); $this = stripslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS[$key]); $this = strtr($this, "><|", " "); $$key = $this; which also stops the /" problem in mySQL when people enter just " however, if a ' appears anywhere in the form, the reuslts are not posted to mysql...can anyone help? summary: i want to stip <>| from a form, and stop the \' and '" please help! thanks http://www.php.net/manual/function.addslashes.php

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