pull it out then use stripslashes() as you display it ... Steve "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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]
