[PHP] Re: Escape characters won't go away

2002-09-10 Thread Richard Lynch
Well, I appreciate your input. But the backslashes are (well, were) there. And I wasn't putting them in. Here's what the sequence was: If you leave the default of Magic Quotes on in php.ini, you are adding the backslashes on every GET/POST/COOKIE data element as it comes in. I have a form

[PHP] Re: Escape characters won't go away

2002-09-05 Thread Richard Lynch
I'm getting multiple backslashes in data I get out of a mysql database. That's crazy... You'd have to be adding an awful lot of backslashes *before* you put it in there. MySQL eats up one (1) set of \s when it reads data. 1. $string = stripslashes($string); - Doesn't do anything Sure it