Replacing Text

[Anon]

Hi all,

I am running a simple user login area with an Admin area to add new users.
I am trying to make the admin area as simple as possible and I would like to be able to format names so that they are entered into the database correctly.
For example
Dick Van Dike = Dick.VanDike

I can do this part fine my problem is take out the ' from a name this is what happens

Paddy O'Brien = Paddy.O\Brien

Why does it replace ' with \ whenI just want it to remove the '

Here is the code

$sname = ereg_replace('_|-|\'',"",$sname);

Any help would be some help 🙂

Thanks

[Anon]

add this line below your code and it should sort it:

$sname=preg_replace("[\x5c]","",$sname);

[Anon]

Simply use
while entering to database say var $data
$data = addslashes($data);

then when fetching out of it
$data =stripslashes($data);

Enjoy 😉