Backslash shows up in textarea content save to file?

[gorilla1]

I am eading from a text area and then writing that content to a file. When I then read that file and display its contents, any single quote character appears with a backslash in front of it, e.g., "don't" appears as "don\'t".

Does anyone know why this happens and what steps can be taken to pevent it?

G

[firepages]

it happens as PHP automatically escapes any special chars (this annoys many people) although magic_quotes can be disabled in the php.ini they rarely are (and partially for good reasons) but you can alter that with ini_set() at runtime if you wish www.php.net/ini_set

easiest way around is, when you display the data, instead of

echo $string;

echo stripslashes($string);

[gorilla1]

firepages,

Thanks. I stripslashed $HTTP_POST_VARS and that got the job done.

G