why does it add the \ ?

[sstonge]

when I sumbit somehting in a form using post it always adds a \ infromt of every '

for ex.
when I type this into the text box
Steve's house
then I submit it, it prints
Steve\'s house

why does it do this, and is there an easy way around it?

thanks

[tekky]

so it doesnt accidently terminate a string by having a line like

$var = 'This is what he said, ' (note PHP would see this as a terminated string with no ; )They've all been said before!'';

note: ignore the red text its not part of the string just a comment....

now PHP would error to all hell over that string.... because the 's inside the string are NOT escaped with a \

[sstonge]

when using strings I have no problem...

but when I use forms I can't get it to work.

I have a text box in the form called text
then I submit the form using POST

on the next page I print what was typed

echo $_POST['text'];

and that is when the \' comes up

why does it add the \ to the form value when I print it on the nex page?

[sstonge]

here is the code on my the form pages

<form name="form1" method="post" action="2.php">
<input name="textfield" type="text" value="Steve's">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

on the next page (2.php) here is the code

 <?php echo $_POST['textfield']; ?> 

It prints: Steve\'s

I want it to print: Steve's

thanks

[sstonge]

above I meant it prints: Steve\'s
with the \ infront of the '

[DoD]

there is an edit button btw

And to remove it use:

$text = str_replace("\\\\\'", "'", $text);

Hmmm i had to put 5 "\"'s in to get it to print one... :rolleyes:

But its very strange - it shouldnt!

A string with " or ' is no problem for php. Through a form, mysql, or if you just use the other to open the string (otherwise it spurts errors) the \ is just needed to say i dont what to ; yet. Otherwise it gets angry with u.

[sstonge]

sweet!
thanks a tone!

[Natty_Dreadlock]

the reason for your "problems" are magic quotes, a default behaviour of php. php quotes (adds backslashes) to "critical" chars like ' or " automagically.... u can use stripslashes to remove the slashes...

[tekky]

Originally posted by DoD
there is an edit button btw

And to remove it use:

$text = str_replace("\\\\\'", "'", $text);

just use stripslashes($text);

[DoD]

yes, its a better way, but i've had no use for it, as my old server had the setting turned off or on (dont know which) and now, i've totally changed my website working, so i dont need it any more.