Form no accepting html

[mcmuney]

I'm using a script to send messages to members within my site, but the form doesn't accept html. Plus, everywhere there's ' is used, on reply it adds a bunch of \\\\\'. I've narrowed this problem down to the following lines (particularly the htmlspecialchars and addslashes). Any help to explain this would be greatly appreciated:

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$subject = htmlspecialchars($subject);
$body  = htmlspecialchars($body);
$sql="INSERT INTO `sc_messages` (`smg_from`, `smg_to`, `smg_subject`, `smg_body`, `smg_postdate`,`smg_block` ) VALUES ('$social_mem_id','$scm_mem_id ','$subject','".addslashes($body)."','$time','$smg_block')";

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[shortj75]

did you try to use stripslashes like so

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$body = $_POST['body'];


$body = stripslashes($body);
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that should remove the //////
but i did notice that you are useing addslashes($body) that will add the ///////  so change addslashes to stripslashes and that should solve your problem

[mcmuney]

Strange, if I replace "addslashes" with "stripslashes", it no longer writes to the database.