mail function escapes symbols in messages

[king.oslo]

Hello,

 

I was wondering how to prevent mail() function from escaping quotes and other special letters in emails:

 

<?php

$msg = 'This is a message with a "quote" that will be escaped automatically';
$mail = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);

//This will send an email with the message:
//'This is a message with a \"quote\" that will be escaped automatically'
?>

 

Thanks,

Marius

[Catfish]

not sure on this one. i thought yo ucould use stripslashes but mail() doesn't return a string. there doesn't seem to be anything in the manual about switching the escaping off from what i can see.

 

are you sure it is mail() that is escaping the string? if it isn't you can likely try: $mail = mail($to, $subject, stripslashes($message), $header);

[king.oslo]

You were right, it wasn't the mail function that did this.

 

I used the stripslashes() function like you said, and all went well

 

Thanks,

Marius