Eregi_replace is not working for ' and "

[Marc]

Members on my website can send instant messages to eachother.
When they use text a-z all is ok
If they use " ' they get scrambled messages like (\&quote\) etc..
I know that eregi_replace can stop this, but don't know howto code it that way.
Please advice me on this........
Here is my eregi so far.
Thanks

 if ($ac == "sent1" ){

$text = eregi_replace("<", " GEEN < TOEGESTAAN", $text); 
$text = eregi_replace("&#", ":P", $text);
$text = eregi_replace("'", "&#039;", $text);
$text = eregi_replace("\"", "&quot;", $text);
$text = preg_replace('/\015\012|\015|\012/',' ',$text); 
$text = htmlspecialchars($text);
// $text = htmlentities($text);
$text = addslashes($text);  

[OhLordy]

If you don't actually need the power of regular expressions then use str_replace. It is far quicker.

Also a number of you replacements are done anyway by htmlspecialchars.
Just try it without any of your replaces and just using the standard functions.
Remember use addslashes just before you put it in the database, stripslashes just after you take it out and htmlspecialchars & htmlentities just before you output it to the page. You want your data to as it normally should be for as long as possible. Only change it when you have to.

Good Luck
Rob

[Marc]

Thanks, but this is not working in the script i created anymore.
The eregi_replace is working fine, it is only the ' and " that is giving me the andquotes