Copy'n paste form solution

[zzz]

I have a form where an information could b pasted. In order to preserve paragraph and line breaks I encode it before storing in my db like this:

if($POST["field_data"]) $myData=urlencode($POST["field_data"]);
else $myData=$field_data;

When I retreive it, I decode it to get a regular HTML output:

$field_data = $dataFromDB ;
$field_data= str_replace("%0D%0A", "<br>", $field_data);

Two questions:

1. Is this the best way of doing it?

2. When I have appostrophies in test like John's my data gets encoded and stored as John\'s and everytime I edit this text it keeps adding the escape character: John\\'s. How do I deal with that?

[Matt_Kindig]

 $field_data= str_replace("%0D%0A", "<br>", $field_data);

1. Is this the best way of doing it?

I think that

$field_data=urldecode($field_data);

may be better for you.

To get rid of slashes, do this:

$field_data=stripslashes($field_data)

[zzz]

Perfect!

[Matt_Kindig]

Does everything now work ok? If so, could you mark the threat resolved?