How to get html entities from $_POST?

[hoangthi]

Here is my basic example:

 

<?
echo $result = $_POST["test"];
?>

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>"> 
<b>TEST: </b> </br> <textarea rows="2" name="test" cols="60"></textarea><br />
  <input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">
</form>

 

Input abcdefg into textarea and click Submit, and we will see

$result = abcdefg;

But if i type: /<title>(.*)<\/title>/isU

We will have

$result = /<title>(.*)<\\/title>/isU (NOT      /<title>(.*)<\/title>/isU )

I want to get $result = /<title>(.*)<\/title>/isU

Please help me.

 

[scootstah]

You probably have magic quotes turned on. Turn it off in the php.ini.

[hoangthi]

Easy to do, just create a php.ini with some commands and upload it, but can you help me with an other way?

[scootstah]

You can try stripslashes.

 

Or don't use slashes as the delimiter and then you don't have to escape them.

 

But all you have to do is change a "1" to a "0" and the problem goes away. Don't make it harder than it has to be.

[hoangthi]

i want to make a form to input tags for preg match all so i nEed initial value of the form...

[hoangthi]

Thank you so much, Simply, add to .htacess this:

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off