Mystery problem with a PHP script.

[Rawns]

I've created a 'update' news page to update my sites news via a web browser. ive linked a file called news.txt (which contains the news) to index.php. THis file loads fine - no probs.

I created an update page with this code:

<?php
	$file = file_get_contents("news.txt");
	echo '<textarea name="textarea2" cols="100" rows="10">' . $file . '</textarea>';

When the page loads, the news.txt file is loaded into a text are so I can edit it. Below the text area is an update button that points to update.php. The file contains this code:

<?php 
$file = 'news.txt'; 
$contents = @$_POST['textarea2']; 
if(empty($contents) || $contents == '') 
    die('No update information given.'); 
if(!is_writeable($file)) 
    die('File [<span style="font-style: italic;">'.$file.'</span>] not writeable.  Check permissions.'); 
$fp = fopen($file, 'w'); 
if(!$fp) 
    die('Opening of file [<span style="font-style: italic;">'.$file.'</span>] failed.'); 
if(fwrite($fp, $contents) === false) 
    die('Writing to file [<span style="font-style: italic;">'.$file.'</span>] failed!!'); 
fclose($fp); 
print"News updated!!";
print"<a href=\"news.php\">Back</a>"; 
?> 

This script works fine too. Once Ive edited the textarea with the news and click 'update', the file updates with no problems apart from one.

If I add new content to the news, when I click update, the script adds backslashes to any speechmarks in the file. For example, If I added:

Forums updated! <a href="forums.php" terget="blank">Forums</a>

It would add the news like this:

Forums updated! <a href=\"forums.php\" terget=\"blank\">Forums</a>

I know in some PHP files, you need to put forward slashes before speach marks but every time the news is updated, it adds another forward slash. If I added the above example and then updated the file again with five other news updates, it would apear like this:

Forums updated! <a href=\\\"forums.php\\\" terget=\\\"blank\\\">Forums</a>

Its anoying as it is messing up any links I add to the news as well. WHy is this happening? I cant figure it out!

Ive noticed now that it adds between 2-5 backslashes during an update. Help! 🙁

[Houdini]

Use stripslashes()

[Rawns]

How would I include it in the code?

[DevlshOne]

<?php
$file = file_get_contents("news.txt");
echo '<textarea name="textarea2" cols="100" rows="10">' . stripslashes($file) . '</textarea>';

[Rawns]

All well and good but that will only get rid of them on the update page. Once Ive updated, they will be added again and the links wont work.

[Rawns]

I've tried to add stripslashes() to the update page in the hope it would work like so:

<?php 
$file = 'news.txt';

$contents = @$_POST['textarea2']; 

if(empty($contents) || $contents == '') 
    die('No update information given.'); 

if(!is_writeable($file)) 
    die('File [<span style="font-style: italic;">'.$file.'</span>] not writeable.  Check permissions.'); 

$fp = fopen($file, 'w'); 
if(!$fp) 
    die('Opening of file [<span style="font-style: italic;">'.$file.'</span>] failed.'); 

if(fwrite($fp, $contents) === false) 
    die('Writing to file [<span style="font-style: italic;">'.$file.'</span>] failed!!'); 


fclose($fp); 
stripslashes($file);

print"News updated!!"<br>;
print"<a href=\"news.php\">Back</a>"; 
?> 

It has not worked though. 🙁