Php replacing " " in variables

[Jarid]

I am making a simple online html editor. I wrote a php script that prints the html that you typed in the form into a .html document. The problem is that php is replacing the parentheses with / \ /\ slashes. how do i stop this?

<?php
$text = $_REQUEST['HTML'] ;
$test= "test.html";
$fh = fopen($test, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $text);
fclose($fh);
?>

Thank you

[MadTechie]

use stripslashes, but ideally turn off magic quotes in your PHP.ini file