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"Dodgey POST/form submit output (PHP)"

Hmmmm.

Here's the deal.

When entering text into a textarea or textbox and submitting it then echoing it on another page, some of the characters don't seem to come out properly.

For example.

Apostrophies: It's
Come out as: It\'s

Any ideas as to why?

Hopefully someone from FREEOLA reads this so they can change their system - whenever I use their Customer Service feedback form it is full of \'s !

If you want to check if PHP is set to automatically escape any input, you can evaluate the return value of the get_magic_quotes_gpc() function:

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
# Automatic add slashes is on.
}

Ah cheers, that did the trick!

echo stripslashes($text);

By default, PHP allows for the addslashes function to automatically be run on any data being sent via POST (form), GET (query string) or from a COOKIE, which is what is happening on your web server (the magic_quotes_gpc value in the php.ini file is set to on).

The stripslashes function, as I'm sure you can already guess, strips out these slashes.

You've got magic quotes turned on, look at this..

[URL]http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc[/URL]

Hmmmm.

Here's the deal.

When entering text into a textarea or textbox and submitting it then echoing it on another page, some of the characters don't seem to come out properly.

For example.

Apostrophies: It's
Come out as: It\'s

Any ideas as to why?