Millions of slashes

[flyhoney]

I'm working on a site that has a database with content that has accumulated about a kajillion slashes.  Anyone know the best method to strip these slashes when echoing?

[Minase]

what type of content are you storing in DB?

it can be done by str_replace

give an example how the result from db look and how you want to look at echo and i will do it.

[revraz]

Are they in a row like \\\\\\\\\\ or one at a time?

 

Are they backslashes or forward slashes?

 

You can always do a replace and replace them with nothing.

[flyhoney]

It's just text, and I guess magic quotes is on and there is some addslashes going on and it is causing data that is edited and saved to slowly accumulate more and more slashes.

 

Stuff like this:

 

This is a silly slashy sentence, isn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t it?

[flyhoney]

yeah I guess str_replace is the best bet here

[Minase]

here it is your code

 

$text = "This is a silly slashy sentence, isn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t it?";
$replace = str_replace ( "\\", "" ,$text);
echo $replace;

 

btw you have a problem when you update a value into database it do escape ' to \'

show the update part and you dont need to replace and have those creepy slashes anymore