apostrophes in php

[shane.carr]

Hi! This should be an obvious question with an easy answer. How do you echo an apostrophe without having a backslash behind it?

[lavinpj1]

echo ("this wasn't working");

[shane.carr]

echo ("this wasn't working");
How do you echo an apostrophe without having a backslash behind it?

Sorry lavinpj1, but that didn't answer my question. But, I found another way:


stripslashes($_POST['helloworld'])


Thanks anyway!

[Kid Charming]

The question was probably misunderstood. When echoing, you can use single or double-quotes around the string to quote. If you use single-quotes, apostrophes have to be escaped with a backslash, or you'll get an error.

What you're running into is the magic_quotes_gpc directive, which, when turned on in your php.ini, automatically escapes quotes that come from POST/GET/COOKIE operations. It does this as a security measure to help protect you from SQL injection attacks when you insert into a database.

[GJay]

except more often does more harm than good, and is as such being scrapped for PHP6.

[Kid Charming]

except more often does more harm than good, and is as such being scrapped for PHP6.

That is fabulous news. I hate magic quotes. :thumbsup:

[shane.carr]

What you're running into is the magic_quotes_gpc directive, which, when turned on in your php.ini, automatically escapes quotes that come from POST/GET/COOKIE operations.

Oops! I guess I forgot to tell you that the variables were from $_POST. But, anyways, problem solved!