Get rid of slashes when parsing HTML?

[tinuviel]

Hi there! I have a function that is retrieving whatever string exists between two tags in an html document. But if there are any quotation marks ' or " in the string, when it retrieves the info and displays it to my form, it puts an escape character \ just before the quotation mark. Does anyone know how I can get rid of these escape characters? Here's my function:

(where datatype may be a tag like <image> </image>)

function display_field($datatype,$in_page){
if(!$in_page){
return "";
}
else{
$directory="some directory";
$page = $directory.$in_page;
$pagefile = fopen($page, "r");
$data = fread($pagefile, filesize($page));
if (eregi("<" . $datatype . ">(.*)</" . $datatype . ">", $data, $out)) {
$outdata = $out[1];
}
return $outdata;
}
}
?>

[Anon]

stripslashes($msg);

that will remove the escaping slashes.

I wish more people would read the manual 🙂

[tinuviel]

Thanks Dave...but I'm sticking my tongue out you! (the reading the manual bit)
🙂

[tinuviel]

That function worked to remove the slashes in front of single quotes..but double quotes and anything after them are totally getting lost now...regardless of slashes or not. I'm thinking that because they are in the string, when the function gets to the double quote it doesn't save anything past it. Is there anyway to fix this?

[tinuviel]

I figured out that if my form fields are text areas instead of input lines that it will save and display without the slashes correctly.