\\ Problems in forms/php

[Anon]

Hi

I hope somebody can help with my problem. I am passing values from a form field to variable this is working fine however whenever in the piece of there are occurences of " or ' when the variable is displayed \ has been inserted around them

e.g.

I Love 'PHP'

would become

I Love \'PHP\'

I mite frustrating I'll think you'll agree

any ideas how to stop this

Thanx in advance

Ian

[Anon]

I had the same problem when I did the following:

<?
if ($submit)
{
$res=mysql_query("INSERT INTO table(name) VALUES('$name')",$mysql_link);
}
?>

<form action=PHPSELF>
<input name=name value="<? echo $name ?>">
<input type=submit name=submit>
</form>

The name field is returned as \'Peter\' after one run.

<input name=name value="<? $name=stripslashes($name); echo $name; ?>">

Did the trick for me.

[Anon]

Hi - I have just faced the same problem. Solve it with:

$x=str_replace ("\" , "" , $x);

[Anon]

Its only a few milliseconds I know, but Peters stripslashes() is (relatively) faster than Chris's str_replace()

This is what the stripslashes() was meant for, so you are better off using that.

[Anon]

Cheers lads for all the help

[Anon]

Hehe - we learn new things every day - I didn't know there was a stripslashes () function! Thanks Pete and Simon!