escaping characters in form data

[raveman]

Hi everyone,

I'm sure this is something that is very easy to do, but I am "code challenged" so I'll ask for some help.

I have a simple update form which sends a plain text email containing the data entered by the user. The problem is, when the user enters characters such as single quote (or apostrophe) or double quotes, the text in the email then has the backslash escape character in place of said entities. Anything following an apostophe is truncated.

I've spent the last two hours scouring the PHP manual, but nothing is making sense as to what I need to include in my code to allow users to enter the above mentioned characters without causing problems.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Dave

[mrmufin]

Use the stripslashes() function on the form data while you're stuffing it into the email message string...

[raveman]

I forgot to mention that the data is first posted to an on-screen confirmation (where the characters mentioned before appear with the "\" before them) and THEN it is posted via hidden fields to a plain text email.

Does the stripslashes still apply? And if so, some help with syntax please, as I am really not very good at this.

Thanks again
Dave

[mrmufin]

Yes.

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