Backslash Apostrophe Combo

kanji

The very first PHP program I wrote, I made an e-card script from scratch.

The user selects an image, types the names and email addresses needed, and a short little message.

The recipient gets the email, the sender gets a copy of the message sent, and once the recipient has opened the email, the sender gets alerted that their card was read.

My problem is:

Anytime a user types in an apostrophe, the recipient gets a backslash apostrophe combo.

It gets confusing and sloppy when Happy Mother’s Day turns into Happy Mother/’s Day.

I was hoping somebody might be able to remedy this situation.

All I have been able to do is write a little note on the card page alerting the sender to this bug, but I would love to be able to fix it.

Any ideas?

Weedpacket

[man]stripslashes[/man]

kanji

Thank you very much, that’s exactly what I needed.

But help! I’ve looked at how they implemented stripslashes, but I can’t make heads or tails of the situation.

Do I use the stripslashes command on my requested variables, such as:

$tname = $REQUEST["tname"] ;
$temail = $REQUEST["temail"] ;
$yname = $REQUEST["yname"] ;
$yemail = $REQUEST["yemail"] ;
$greeting = $REQUEST["greeting"] ;
$message = $REQUEST["message"] ;
$close = $REQUEST["close"] ;
$image = $REQUEST["image"] ;
$background = $REQUEST["background"] ;
$fonts = $REQUEST["fonts"] ;
$fontc = $_REQUEST["fontc"] ;

For example, the $message command would be a field that needs to be stripslashed.

Would I do something like:

$message = $_REQUEST["message"] ;
echo stripslashes($message);

And then each time I use $message in the script it would be stripslashed?

Or would I use stripslashes later in the script, not when they’re being requested, but when they are being used?

$body .= "$message";
echo stripslashes($message);

$body .= "$message";
echo stripslashes($body);

My PHP script in its entirety is at http://www.shopkanji.com/card_script.php

Again, thanks for help so far received, and thanks for any help in the future that anybody can provide with this.

ppowell

Because of the wacky magical properties of stripslashes(), I don't even try to use it ever..

I use this:

str_replace('\\', '', $myVar)

It's universally guaranteed to strip slashes!

Phil