stripslashes help

[Lodius2000]

Guys... im rusty and my script is not working right.

 

i have an edit article page.

it goes like this

$article= "pull article text from database where id = whatever
$clean_article= stripslashes($article);
then create a text area with the contents of $clean_article
then write $updated article to the db with addslashes($updated_article);

 

so each time when i use say this line of code <img src="blah"> it should go in the db as

<img src=\"blah\">

and come out of the db as

<img src=\"blah\">

then before i see it is transformed into

<img src="blah">

then goes back in the db as

<img src=\"blah\">

 

instead i am getting this

<img src="blah">

becomes

<img src=\"blah\">

when i put it in the db

then gets put on the page as

<img src=\"blah\">

when i edit the article with the above script i see

<img src=\"blah\">

in the text area the first time

then subsequent times become

<img src=\\\"blah\\\">

and so on

 

what could be the problem

could this be a magic quotes issue?

[Lodius2000]

i should learn to test my theories that i propose before i test... magic quotes was on... didnt occur to me until i said it in the post tho

solved