Urgent please: Help on adding 6' 2" to my database

[tuscan]

I have a drop down field with feet and inches as the data e.g. 6' 1.5", 6' 2" etc

They select say 6' 2" but when it goes into the mysql database it appears as
6\\' 2
I have tried the field as CHAR and TEXT but still get the same answer.

Can someone help me so it appears as 6' 2" in the database and when displayed on a web page.

the code i have in the dropdown is below:

<option value="6' 2""<?php if ( $formsent  && ($_POST[height] == "6' 2\"")) echo "selected=\"selected\" "  ?>>6' 2"</option>

Tuscan

[laserlight]

I'm guessing that you have magic_quotes_gpc turned on in php.ini. Turn it off. If you cannot do that, or cannot safely do that, then use [man]stripslashes/man before escaping the text normally.

[tuscan]

Thanks for the quick reply I will try this.