help with GET method and escaping chars

[cmendoz1]

Hey there...

I'm a n00b that needs some probably silly help. My problem is simple. When I send a value to my script as the following:

viewer.php?name=The man's house

php echos the following:

The man\'s house

It must be something dumb about escaping the ' or something.

any help appreciated

c

[LordShryku]

That's normal. What's the problem?

[cmendoz1]

yuk, I don't want that

I want it to say:

The Man's House

when it is echoed

not

The Man\'s House

The script is just a real simple image viewer, in which a page passes the filename and the author of the image to the script, so that the new page is generated by the php script. It doesn't warrant a DB.

Lets say that there is an image that is called "image1.jpg", its title is "Foo's Revenge" and the author is "Foo Bar". What I am doing then is passing these values to a php script, as follows:

viewer.php?file=image1.jpg&title=Foo's Revenge&name=Foo Bar

and in the script:

<p align="center"><img src="<?php echo $_GET['file']?>" alt="<?php echo $_GET['title']?>"></p>

<p><?php echo $_GET['name']?></p>

<p><?php echo $_GET['title']?></p>

The ideal result would NOT have a \ before any '

any way to get around that???

thanks

c

[LordShryku]

Turn off magic_quotes_gpc. But they need to be escaped when carrying the data to another page. More common would be to just use [man]stripslashes[/man] when echoing it.

[cmendoz1]

Thanks LordShryku!

stripslashes($str) totally did the trick. Appreciate the super quick response too.

c