how to stop \ being inserted?

[Anon]

Hi
I'm getting values from a textarea in html
and writing them with fputs.
BUT if the user enters an ' or an "
in the data, the ouput gets an \ inserted before them.

eg I'm "ok"
becomes I\'m \"ok\"

Is there an easy way to stop this

TIA
Leanne

[Anon]

Hi me again,

apologies !!!!

htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($
will do it
many thanks

[Anon]

try this...

$message = str_replace("\", "", $message);

[Anon]

Or you can go to the source of the problem in your php.ini file. Set the magic_quotes_gpc to Off. PHP escapes quotes with backslashes if magic_quotes_gpc = On.

Take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc for more information.