HTML entities problem

I am using this code to stop parsing of posted code on my forum:

$threadd = str_replace("&lt;br /&gt;","<br/>",htmlspecialchars(nl2br($thread)));



Works great. Untill someone posts a single quote.

Example of the problem:

user posts: don't
post comes out as: don\'t


Same with double quotes.

Whats up with this?

Thanks. :cool:

I suppose you have magic_quotes turned on

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php#ini.magic-quotes-runtime

If so, then turn it off or use a stripslashes() on every output

(If you ask me, magic_quotes are probably the most stupif thing ever added to PHP. You never know what setting another host will have and it can realy mess up your script)

That'll do thanks.