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Easy question! Removing slashes and other things in strings you get from forms


zrweber

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Alright, so I just started picking up PHP again and I have a pretty simple question. I have a html form that takes a string then writes it on another page. My problem is when I use quotations I'll get slashes in them on the page it writes the string on.

 

Is there a way to clean that stuff up?

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the reason the slashes are there is because magic quotes is turned on. if you'd like to make your code more portable, check to see if magic quotes is turned on before using stripslashes. one possibility:

 

$field1 = (!empty($_POST['field1']))?$_POST['field1']:'';
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
      $field1 = stripslashes($field1);
}

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