slashes

[FrozNic]

anyone got or know a good site for a quick tutorial/help on strip slashes and addslashes, i've been reading php.net's but, just wondering if anyone has another resource, thanks.

[matt_4013]

Hi there, there's really not much to it.

To escape potentially dangerous characters, use addslashes on a string. To strip them, use stripslashes, it's that simple.

[jimson]

To : FrozNic
check your php.ini setting.

; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = On

if magic_quotes_gpc is on the it means that the $GET['whatever'],
$POST['whatever'] and $_COOKIE['whatever'] are automatically slash.

so simple way is by example.

fileA.php

<form method="post" action="fileB.php">
	<textarea cols="20" rows="20" name="t1"></textarea>
	<input type="submit">
</form>

fileB.php

<?php
echo '<textarea cols="20" rows="20">';
echo $_POST['t1'];
echo '</textarea>';
echo '<textarea cols="20" rows="20">';
echo stripslashes($_POST['t1']);
echo '</textarea>';
?>

hopefully, you get what i mean...

From,

Jimson Chang

Life is a preparation to our God in the final end.

[FrozNic]

yeah, i learned all about it today, got it down pretty good.. along with htmlspecialchars, but, one more quick question about your last post... what does $POST do? what's it for, etc.. obviously just post a var, but, what's the difference between that and $request ? thx

[Weedpacket]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php

Says it all: $POST[] contains data supplied via an http POST request, $GET contains data suppiled via an http GET request, and $_REQUEST[] (which I've never found cause to use, myself) contains both.

[jimson]

just like what the bald man said... 🙂