Do you have magic quotes turned on in your php ini file? Jason
Tim Traver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > ok, I've made my own version of a file manager complete with a text editor, > and I'm having troubles figuring out some issues. > > I present the text to be edited retrieved from a file in a textarea box for > a user to edit, and then POST that to my PHP application, which then saves > it to disk. > > I have found it to break when the text file has intentional backslashes in > it. For instance, if you are editing a perl script, there are a lot of > times where you need lots of backslashes in a row. > > Does the POST data get urlencoded as it is coming in to the program, and > then PHP unencodes it to put it in the variable ? It seems that there is > some kind of translation. > > I've tried to use addslashes and stripslashes to prevent some of the > clobbering of the text, but it doesn't seem to be working. If I don't do > anything, it looks like PHP (or HTML) backslashes all quotes... > > I just want to get the EXACT text that is in the textarea to be saved to > disk... > > Here is an example of a line that gets clobbered : > > $value =~ tr/\0//d; > > I read the file in from disk using file_get_contents. Does that do any > translation ??? > > Any help would be appreciated, > > Tim. > > > > > > SimpleNet's Back ! > http://www.simplenet.com > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
