String trouble

[Pjotr Wedersteers]

I am using a function that does a very basic encryption (rotation based) of
data.
Data is a string which may contain a..z,A..Z,0..9,[],(),|,{}"', length
limited to 255 chars.

The problem I have is the following:

Let's say my $string is 'This is a string'
At a given moment encrypt ($string) yields '6noq4oq4"q6{o]3' as a result.
When I decrypt that I get my original string back. But if I send the
encrypted string in a POST var, this is what I get:
'6noq4oq4\"q6{o]3'; So the " gets escaped and decrypt produces undesired
results.
I don't want that. I want whatever I am putting in to come out verbatim in
the receiving script.

Which function(s) will help me do this ?

THANKS!
Pjotr

PS I am aware of exisiting PHP hash and encrypt functions. This is for
demonstration purposes only.

[Virgil Green]

Re: String trouble

"Pjotr Wedersteers" <x33159@westert erp.com> wrote in message
news:41348152$0 $78753$e4fe514c @news.xs4all.nl ...[color=blue]
> I am using a function that does a very basic encryption (rotation based)[/color]
of[color=blue]
> data.
> Data is a string which may contain a..z,A..Z,0..9,[],(),|,{}"', length
> limited to 255 chars.
>
> The problem I have is the following:
>
> Let's say my $string is 'This is a string'
> At a given moment encrypt ($string) yields '6noq4oq4"q6{o]3' as a result.
> When I decrypt that I get my original string back. But if I send the
> encrypted string in a POST var, this is what I get:
> '6noq4oq4\"q6{o]3'; So the " gets escaped and decrypt produces undesired
> results.
> I don't want that. I want whatever I am putting in to come out verbatim in
> the receiving script.
>
> Which function(s) will help me do this ?[/color]

What Ken said (stripslashes() ), but you should also be aware that the slash
got there in the first place because you probably have magic_quotes enabled
for your PHP installation. It is escaping the quotes for you.

- Virgil

[Michael Fesser]

Re: String trouble

.oO(Ken Robinson)
[color=blue]
>Use the function "stripslash es", encrypt(stripsl ashes($_POST['var']))[/color]

Use get_magic_quote s_gpc() first to check if magic quotes are enabled
(they are by default, but you shouldn't rely on that).

Micha