Writing to a file....FPUT

[Anon]

Hi,... I'd just like to warn you ahead of time..I am a terible php programmer..but I need help . The new php4 automatically adds slashes to incoming variable in 'Get' and 'Post' html actions. My script.. is a little nifty thing that creates a webpage by writing what ever input I give it to a file. but the Problem is that my output has slashes where ever there is an " ' " tag. Does anyone know how to take that away?

MY CODE ::::::::::::::::::

<?php

if ($submit_j=="1"):

// set the file name
$filename = "$name";
$data = "$article$top$bottom";
// open the file
$handle= fopen($filename,'w');

// write the string to the file handle
fputs($handle, $data);

// close the file
fclose($handle);

echo 'ur page has been submitted';

?>
<?
elseif ($submit == "1") :
?>
<form action="index.php" method=get>
<input type="hidden" name="submit_j" value="1">
<input type="text" size="15" name="name">
<br>
<textarea cols="30" name="top">&lt;HTML&gt;
&lt;HEAD&gt;
&lt;TITLE&gt;blablhabhl.com&lt;/TITLE&gt;
&lt;?php
include ('top.inc');
?&gt;
&lt;table border=0 cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 height=0 width=&quot;100%&quot;&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr bgcolor=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;
&lt;td valign=top bgcolor=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; &lt;/div&gt;

&lt;hr noShade size=1&gt;</textarea>">

<textarea cols="30" name="article"></textarea>
<textarea cols="30" name="bottom">&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;?php
include ('sidemid.inc');
?&gt;
&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;
</textarea>
<input type=submit name=submit value="Add Article To Site">
</form>

[Anon]

LOL.. the forum ..changed my original code oh the html! lol..

[Anon]

Your site has magic_quotes turned on. Either turn them off, or (if it's just one or two variables your'e worried about) call strip_slashes() to remove the extra escapes before writing to the file.

[Anon]

Hi, Thanks for going through the trouble of replying for me. Thnak you 🙂
what if I have no control over the magic_quotes .. you mentioned strip_slashes() would it be to much to ask if you would kindly tell me where to insert strip_slashes() in terms of html/php or either code??

once again I hope I am making sence..lol

Thanks in advance
Best Regards
SeE-ZeR

[Anon]

Sure. Wherever it is you are writing your data that has the unwanted doubled slashes, e.g.

&nbsp;&nbsp;fputs( $file, $data );

just insert the call to stripslashes (note, no underscore in that name) before it:

&nbsp;&nbsp;$data = stripslashes( $data );
&nbsp;&nbsp;fputs( $file, $data );

[Anon]

THANK! YOUUUU!!!!!! Honestly I mean it.. this is the firs time in php that I got advice that worked..thanks a lot..God Bless you 🙂 Peace