use stripslashes on the data being posted.
for ex if the text field name is varText
use $varText=stripslashes($varText)
That should take care of it
regards
Ankur Verma
HCL Technologies
A1CD, Sec -16
Noida, UP
India
----- Original Message -----
From: "John P. Donaldson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 10:11 PM
Subject: [PHP] character problem
> I've created a PHP script that is called from a form
> to send an email. The contents of the email is a
> hidden value in the form named "info," and is
> typically a paragraph of text. It works fine,
> however, for some reason, the apostrophy character
> always gets emailed looking like this: /'
>
> I've tried everything to get around this. Any ideas?
> Here's my script and form:
>
> Form:
>
> <form name="form1" method="GET"
> action="emailsender.php">
> <p>Email this product info to a friend</p>
> <input type="text" name="email">
> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Email Info">
> <input type="hidden" name="info" value="This is the
> text that gets emailed. I'm having problems with the
> apostrophe character in this text though">
> </form>
>
>
> Script file named emailsender.php:
>
> <?php
> print "<p>The product info has been mailed to:
> <b>$email</b>";
>
> $to = $email;
> $sender ="[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
>
> MAIL(
> "$email", # address to send $info email to
> "Product Info", # subject
> "$info", # hidden form field containing text to email
> "From: $sender\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
>
> ?>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> John
>
>
>
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