' is showing up as \'

zapa

Hello, I am new to this php, but getting the hang of it.

My problem/Questions is this:

I am reading text from txt file and pluging it into php
<?
$data = file('currentdemo.txt');
foreach($data as $key=>$element)
{
$element = trim($element);
$pieces = explode("|", $element);
}
?>

Then I an saying it in a textarea box,

<?
// replace <BR> to newline for field display
$changelog = trim($pieces[2]);
$changelog = str_replace("<BR>","\n", $changelog);

echo $changelog;

It works fine, only problem is when someone file has " or ' it will convert it to /' or /" this is a problem. I want it to show correctly
i.e. I'll be back, and not I/'ll be back.

btw the user is able to edit the textarea and save the changes (it works fine) just this /' problem @#*&@ grr

Any help would be much thanks,
ZAPa

LordShryku

[man]stripslashes[/man]

This is normal when magic_quotes_gps is enabled

Stoned_Gecko

This magic_quotes setting at work, which will automatically escape the ' and " characters for you, making them \' and \". You can either turn it off, or use stripslashes() to strip the escape backslash.

More info at http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php#ini.magic-quotes-runtime

zapa

ohh wow you guys/gals rock here at this phpbuilder board!

thanks for the fast quick respond, trying it now..
little change i made and it works perfect the way it should now,

$changelog = trim($pieces[2]);
$changelog = str_replace("<BR>","\n", $changelog);
echo stripslashes($changelog);

ZAPa😃

TTT

//$changelog = str_replace("<BR>","\n", $changelog);
// ==
nl2br($changelog);

LordShryku

Looks like he's doing the opposite of nl2br TTT....