Hi, I'm having trouble getting special characters out of MySQL using php 4.06. I add a field like "McDonald's" from PHP and in mysql client I can see the entry (McDonald's) is put into the database correctly. However the problem arises when I query it and it prints out (McDonald\'s). Is there any way for php to pull out the string as it is in the database without putting in the escape character ( \ ) ???? thx -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]