note 43936 added to function.htmlentities

This must be a stupid question... it used to work until I changed hosting providers (all PHP 4.3). I have a "Mail me" form, with a TEXTAREA for the message. <form action="sendmail.php" method=post> I want to give feedback ("You posted blah") in HTML and, of course, send an email to myself, without HTML formatting. Page formatting snipped for clarity: $COMMENTS=$_POST['Comments']; $HTML_COMMENTS=htmlentities($COMMENTS, ENT_QUOTES); $REAL_COMMENTS=html_entity_decode($HTML_COMMENTS); if (mail("me@my.domain", $Subject, $REAL_COMMENTS, $headers)) { echo "Thanks, got your email. Keep surfing with the links to the left,"; echo "or go back to <a href=\"${referer}\">$referer</a>"; } else { echo "There may have been a problem delivering the email. Oops!"; } echo "Your Comments:<P>${HTML_COMMENTS}"; Given the input of: foo="bar"; echo $1 I'd expect the HTML page produced, to be: foo=&quot;bar;&quot;&amp; echo $1 And the email produced, to be: foo="bar"; echo $1 What I do get (with any combination of ENT_*), is (in both the HTML page and the email): foo=\\"bar\\"; echo $1 I must be missing something obvious; any assistance appreciated. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+43936 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+43936&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+43936&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php