Input text issues

[Pol]

Whenever I receive input from an HTML text field or and HTML text area
with " or ' meaning double or singe quotes into a php variable and
then print or echo it back out to the user in html I get these
characters accompanies by a \ . Why is this and how can I get rid of it.


$submitform->body=@$_POST['body']; <<<< there are no \ in the input.

print("body - ".$submitfo rm->body."<br>") ; <<<< but here there will
be slashes for all ' or " .

Thanks for any help!

[Nancy]

Re: Input text issues

I believe php is 'escaping' these characters so they will not be parsed as
code.

see http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

hth
nan

"Pol" <Pol@nospam.com > wrote in message
news:1206v631df mpp29@news.supe rnews.com...[color=blue]
> Whenever I receive input from an HTML text field or and HTML text area
> with " or ' meaning double or singe quotes into a php variable and then
> print or echo it back out to the user in html I get these characters
> accompanies by a \ . Why is this and how can I get rid of it.
>
>
> $submitform->body=@$_POST['body']; <<<< there are no \ in the input.
>
> print("body - ".$submitfo rm->body."<br>") ; <<<< but here there will be
> slashes for all ' or " .
>
> Thanks for any help![/color]

[Nancy]

Re: Input text issues

Andy Hassall has a better answer under the previous post "Weird: Slashes
getting added"
"Nancy" <no@email.due.t o.spam.com> wrote in message
news:AVLMf.4532 $S25.1853@newsr ead1.news.atl.e arthlink.net...[color=blue]
>I believe php is 'escaping' these characters so they will not be parsed as
>code.
>
> see http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php
>
> hth
> nan
>
> "Pol" <Pol@nospam.com > wrote in message
> news:1206v631df mpp29@news.supe rnews.com...[color=green]
>> Whenever I receive input from an HTML text field or and HTML text area
>> with " or ' meaning double or singe quotes into a php variable and then
>> print or echo it back out to the user in html I get these characters
>> accompanies by a \ . Why is this and how can I get rid of it.
>>
>>
>> $submitform->body=@$_POST['body']; <<<< there are no \ in the input.
>>
>> print("body - ".$submitfo rm->body."<br>") ; <<<< but here there will be
>> slashes for all ' or " .
>>
>> Thanks for any help![/color]
>
>[/color]

[Carl]

Re: Input text issues

Pol wrote:[color=blue]
> Whenever I receive input from an HTML text field or and HTML text area
> with " or ' meaning double or singe quotes into a php variable and
> then print or echo it back out to the user in html I get these
> characters accompanies by a \ . Why is this and how can I get rid of it.
>
>
> $submitform->body=@$_POST['body']; <<<< there are no \ in the input.
>
> print("body - ".$submitfo rm->body."<br>") ; <<<< but here there will
> be slashes for all ' or " .
>
> Thanks for any help![/color]

Pol,

I believe this was asked and answered in this same ng less than an hour ago.

see

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/browse_thread/thread/6a4215579cd1dd4e

Carl.

[Mitul]

Re: Input text issues

hi friend,

Please try to user stripeslashes this will remove slashes and gives you
data as u had enterd.