" and ' in a string without \

[Anon]

Hey.... I have a simple code for users to edit their personal webpage. now the problem is that when they hava a charachter such as " or ', php turns it to \" - this often stuffs up links. I have tried urlencode/urldecode, etc and i have not found a way around this problem. can anybody help?

[idiotproof]

tis is the code:
<? include "header.php";

            function webspace($username, $content) {
            $FILE = fopen("users/$username/file.htm","w");
            fwrite($FILE,$content);
            fclose($FILE);
               }

$cs = isset($content);

$foo = true;

if ($cs == $foo)
{
webspace($username, $content);
?>
Done!!!<br>
<form name=ss method=POST action="users/<? echo $username ?>/default.php">
<input type=submit value="Continue" >
</form>
<?
} else {
?>
You must have SOME content on your webpage!!!<br>
<form name=ss method=POST action="webpage.php">
<input type=submit value="Continue" >
</form>
<?
... continued

[idiotproof]

...continued

} else {
?>
You must have SOME content on your webpage!!!<br>
<form name=ss method=POST action="webpage.php">
<input type=submit value="Continue" >
</form>
<?
}
?>

[Anon]

i htink you need to look into a function called strip_slashes

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

[idiotproof]

cheers

[gardner1]

also, you can use htmlspecialchars() if you are going to store any links for them, as you would rather store them w/ their char-equivalent rather than w/ the actual special chars.

others would include the tilde ~ when pps have a /~username directory as their home dir, and spaces from win naming

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.htmlspecialchars.php