I am having problems with auto escape or conversion of the ' and ". PHP is escaping these with . Example \' or \". I am using this info to build an sql query, updates and inserts. I have done a replace and run into problems there.
You'll need the \' and \" if you plan on sticking data in your db that contain quotes.
The problem is when I spool the data out as html. it includes the \'.
$var = stripslashes($var);