stripping the slashes from included file

nxm5

file 1 -- get user input

<center><FORM action=incfiles/filemaker.php method=post>
Please input a description for the "info" portion of your site. Avoid using special characters in your description, they may have adverse effects!<BR>
</FONT><TEXTAREA name=text rows=8 cols=48><? include("incfiles/$login_info.inc"); ?></textarea>
<BR><BR><INPUT type=hidden value="<? echo $login; ?>" name=login><INPUT type=submit value="Edit!" name=submit> <INPUT type=reset value=Reset>
</FORM></center>

file 2 -- turn input into file

<?php

$fp = fopen("$login_info.inc", "w") or die("Couldn't create new file");
$numBytes = fwrite($fp, "$text");
fclose($fp);

echo "Success!";

my problem arises when the user inputs one of those characters that php doesn't like. is there a way to create the text file that i need without having php slash all the chars it doesn't like?

thanks.
nick

cgraz

php does it automatically if you set magic quotes to on I believe. Just use stripslashes() to strip the slashes after extracting it from the file.

Cgraz

nxm5

I am not sure I really understand what you mean by "after extracting it from the file," what would this look like?

cgraz

you're writing to a textfile, right? I guess i'm not too sure what you're going to be doing with this textfile, but if you're going to be using php to read it and display it, when you open the fiel for reading and area bout to display it, use the stripslashes() function

echo stripslashes($file_text_var);

where $file_text_var contains the text in your textfile. I'm pretty sure you get a parse error if those characters aren't escaped, but if you're running php off your computer (not a remote host), then you can set magic quotes to off in your php.ini. If you are using a pay host (or any host other than yourself), then you'll have to work with the settings they provide. stripslashes() will strip the slashes from the file. I personally would leave the slashes in the textfile, and only strip them when I was about to display the info. Depends what the texfile is being used for I guess. If you have employees downloading the text file through ftp, you don't want the slashes there, however if you're displaying the contents of the text file through a browser, stripslashes() will do the trick.

Cgraz