Getting Rid of \" and \' from a file

Anon

In my previous message, I asked how to get rid of the \" and \' when I wrote to a file from a form using a <textarea> ... People told me to use stripslashes(string)... however, i tried and tried but it wont work. I'm trying to open the file, load all of its contents into a temp variable, "stripslash" that temp variable, then load the contents in the temp into the same data file (of course erasing the old)... everytime I write data to the page... this is my write function... please HELP! :

WRITE FUNCTION:

{

$TheFile = "./data/news.txt"; // Points to news file

$Open = fopen($TheFile,"a"); // Opens the file and is ready to write to the end of the file
str_replace("\\"","\"",$Open);
$datepattern = "[0-9]+.";
if(($Open) && (eregi($datepattern, $date))) // If the file is open, then...
{
fwrite($Open, "\n$newsEntry\n$date\n"); // Write the date and news entry to the file
fclose($Open);

print("Write news fucntion completed sucessfully!<tt> Inputs: Date: $date Entry: $newsEntry</tt> <a href='../index.php'>Return to index.php</a>");

}
else
{
// If failure, print debugging info...
print("[DEBUGGING NEEDED] ");
if(eregi($datepattern, $date))
{
print("The date input ( $date ) must begin and end with a digit.");
}
if($Open)
{
print("File '\"Open\" = $Open File \"TheFile\" = $TheFile ");
}

print("Write News function failed! <tt> Inputs: Date: $date Entry: $newsEntry</tt> <a href='../index.php'>Return to index.php</a>");
print(" [END DEBUGGING] ");
}

} // End Write News

END PHP CODE

Thanks

Drew
basement@mail.com

btubalinal

Drew -

I did the same thing and the others that told you to use stripslash() are right.

Instead of a line like you had:
fwrite($Open, "\n$newsEntry\n$date\n");

You could try something like:
fwrite($Open, "\n" . stripslash ($newsEntry) . "\n$date\n");

This should solve your problems in writing to the file. But when you go to read it back and there are already \'s in the file from previous calls to your write function, those will show the \'s. So you would have to use stripslash() again to not show those.

I hope this somewhat helps you.

Bart