addslashes & stripslashes

[phplearner]

Hmmm...I made a post earlier but it appears to have vaporized.

I used 'addslashes' on a text name filed to get (O'Brien) into a MySQL DB table. It works fine.

But I thought I needed to use 'stripslashes' to get it back out correctly.

Just doing the $row=['name']; in the code loop yields (O'Brien) with the single apostrophe ok... WITHOUT using 'stripslashes'.

So apparently I am misunderstanding something about the need to use 'stripslashes' ???

Thanks for any enlightenment.

[dalecosp]

Hmm, you might be misunderstanding, but likely not. I can't tell from what you've written.

There are a few PHP settings that affect this, like "magic quotes". Take a look at your php.ini, or call get_magic_quotes_runtime, or do phpinfo() and see what settings you've got.

It could make a difference.