Escaping Characters

[Yrogerg]

I have a form that takes user input and converts it to uppercase.
Very simple, just for my own use really.

However, if I input something like "it's" it returns "IT\'S"

How would I escape this and any other characters like this?

My code is simple:

<?
     $utext = strtoupper($text);
?>

dienovember.com/case.php (for reference)

Thanks.

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by Yrogerg
I have a form that takes user input and converts it to uppercase.
Very simple, just for my own use really.

However, if I input something like "it's" it returns "IT\'S"

How would I escape this and any other characters like this?

Ah, that's easier - the stray backslash. Well, stripslashes() was designed for that purpose.

[rinjani]

You need addslashes() to escape quotes.

Then for your output use stripslashes() to remove them.

If you have magic quotes on it ought to escape your form input for you.

[Yrogerg]

stripslashes() worked perfectly!

Many thanks to both of you though. 😃