RE: [PHP] stripping slashes before insert behaving badly

I am inserting data from a form into a mySQL database. I am using addslashes to escape things like ' in the data input (this is actually being done in PEAR (HTML_QuickForm). The weird thing is that the data gets written into the table like: what\'s your problem? WITH the slash. I am not

Re: [PHP] stripping slashes before insert behaving badly

John, You are right, something was adding the additional slash. I removed the addslashes() and it fixed the problem. Something I am doing must already be handling that... will step through the code AGAIN and see if I can find it. - Charles On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 12:19 PM, John W.

Re: [PHP] stripping slashes before insert behaving badly

if Magic_quotes_gpc in you php.ini is set to 'on', php will automatically escape(add slashes) for you. Foong Charles Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John, You are right, something was adding the additional slash. I removed the addslashes() and it fixed the