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[Anon]

Hi, I have written a guestbook/forum and I am having trouble with my preview post and special php characters that are breaking the script.

I've noticed that after a form entry, php automatically enters slashes in front of ' and ". Does it also do $?

What's the best way to slash everything so it won't break and echo?

Also, I have a preview page that get's the form data once and displays how it would look. If I pass the same exact data I get, it will add more slashed automatically to my data. How can I prevent this or work around this?

[Anon]

I send data through a form to a processing page where the data is viewed fine because it automatically added slashes for me. After the preview of the data, I have a hidden form with the same data. I can't send in stripped slashes cause it will cut the form. So I just send in the data that was passed by the first form. Now I have two sets of slashes in the next processing page. How can I get rid of these?

My question about $ and all other characters still holds also.

[amcgrath]

paste your code if you can.

[Anon]

I fixed it....this is the order I did things to get it to work after the form.....

• strip slashes
• urlencode
• send through hidden form
• urldecode
• add slahes

that seemed to work.