Question about storing text in MySQL

[Anon]

I want to have a MySQL database hold all the articles on my site.

I am using a web form to upload the articles using php.

How can I use php to replace all the problematic characters in a block of text with an acceptable or escaped version?

Also how would I change them back for displaying on my web site?

Thanx in advance,

Ben

[jordan]

addslashes() and stripslashes().