Extra Characters in Email

brett2

Ok, so I wrote an email script that takes a form and sends it to an email address. Problem is this:

When someone types an apostrophe ( ' ), the php formats it somehow and adds a slash in front of it. So when I get the email it looks something like this:

I/'m going to town tonight. That/'s mine.

What could I do to take out the "/"?

Thanks for the help.

~Brett

Drakla

Has your server got magic quotes on? Sounds like it does - check by running this:

if(get_magic_quotes_gpc())
  echo "It's on";
else
   echo "it's off";

If it is on you need to do stripslashes() on all your get,post and cookie input.

drew010

more simply, do your mail call like this:

mail($to, $subject, stripslashes($message), $headers);

brett2

Thanks for the help guys. But what if I use the stripslashes() and someone intentionally puts in a slash like:

and/or we/us

will those be deleted as well?

Thanks for the help.

~Brett

drew010

if someone puts in a slash php will escape it by putting an additional slash in front of it so when you call stripslashes it will remove the second one and leave theirs in place.