Dealing with quotes in user input

[DJM]

I'm sure that every PHP coder comes up against this one eventually. I have a partial answer, but not a complete one.

I want to allow users to input both single and double quotes in a form text box, and then display back the input.

If the input is:

My "gut feeling" is that I shouldn't do it.

PHP inserts escape slashes in front of the double quotes, and truncates everything after the single quote. I can use stripslashes() to deal with the double quotes, but how can I stop the truncation after the single quotes?

Many thanks

[flameche]

There is some magic in your php.ini
values as
magic_quotes_gpc
and magic_quotes_runtime define the behaviour that php will use with quotes.

Functions are available to test and set those sessions as
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-magic-quotes-gpc.php

[DJM]

Thanks for the reply and all the info.

It seems as if there is no one simple answer to this, as is often the case.