note 8954 added to echo

I'm having problems with having an input form and a submit button and having the form action be the html file. Example: <pre> <html> <body> <? echo $blah . "<p>"; ?> <form method="post" action="blah.php"> <input type="text" name="blah" value="<? echo $blah; ?>"> <input type="submit" value="go"> </form> </body> </html> </pre> The problem is that it replaces every quote and apostrophe in the $blah variable with a \ in front of it, which is really bad for entering text and stuff. Any ideas why it;s doin this? How to disable it? http://www.php.net/manual/function.echo.php