special character like " ' !

hello there,

How do I handle special characters like " ' !

how to I insert and retrieve and quote this in my forum? or form field?

thanks for any comment

I really dont understand what you mean.

Do you want to put quotes in or do you want to remove the backslash \ that gets put in front of some quotes?

Could you give a bit more info please?

I just read it again, And I think I may know:

If you want to put quotes into a string, do this...



$string = "Hello I'm Matthew"; // Single quotes ok, because they are within double quotes.

$string = "Hello, I'm \"Matthew\""; // Double quotes need to have a \\ before them in strings with double quotes.

$string = 'Hello, I\\\'m Matthew'; // Single quotes need to be backslashed because they are within single quotes.

$string = 'Hello I\\\'m "Matthew"'; // Double quotes ok, beacuse they are within single quotes.



Does this help?


I just noticed that VB Strips slashes ( like the stripslashes given below ) when they are behind certain chars. Some of single quotes should have backslashes behind them.

What if he wants to remove those annoying back slashes in front of each quote when printing a string?

stripslashes($string);

That will remove the "magic quotes" that php puts into strings. I believe you can also turn magic quotes off completley, though I feel better with myself just using stripslashes, I mean, I don't like messing with the config too much :).

This site has more info: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

I was thinking stripslashes, but It didnt sound like he wanted that?

I should have put it any way. :rolleyes:

Don't worry 'bout it missing-score. I think he/she did want the info you gave, I was just answering ConfusedOfLife's question.

Thank you! :o