[RESOLVED] escape characters

[Digimist]

Hi
When i enter some text into the database in use a function to escape special characters. This works fine I.e i might see in the database a text field saying

This don\'t .

Now when i update the database if this field is left unchanged it will think that the backslash is ment to be there so now i get

This don\\'t

the more i update the longer it gets and pulls out half the slashes and displays them with the text.
I know why this is happening i just need to know how to fix it can i remove escape charters when retrieving the database entry.
Thanks

[Digimist]

Solved it just took some googling 🙂
USE stripslashes function
sorted

[bradgrafelman]

Actually, that's not really a good "solution" but rather a workaround (that might not always work).

Instead, you should fix the cause of the extra backslashes; most likely, this involves disabling magic_quotes_gpc, although there may be an instance where you accidentally escaped data twice.

[Digimist]

OK ill try disabling magic quotes and just use addslahes is that what you mean?
I am escaping once on create then again on update even if the field hasn't been updated.
This was causing it to add more slashes so when i used stripslashes when retriving the data update then has a clean slate to escape if that makes sence......