Unwanted back slashes from form-to-email script....

[Skeleten Neteleks]

Hi, I am using the code below to exactly replicate the formatting of textareas in html emails sent to me.

However, special charcters such as an apostrophe and speech marks come out as... \' or \"

Is there any way to stop this by editing the code below?

[code]<?php
function wpautop($pee, $br = 1) {
        $pee = $pee . "\n"; // just to make things a little easier, pad the end
        $pee = preg_replace('|<br />\s*<br />|', "\n\n", $pee);
        // Space things out a little
        $pee = preg_replace('!(<(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|colgroup|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])[^>]*>)!', "\n$1", $pee);
        $pee = preg_replace('!(</(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|colgroup|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])>)!', "$1\n\n", $pee);
        $pee = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r"), "\n", $pee); // cross-platform newlines
        $pee = preg_replace("/\n\n+/", "\n\n", $pee); // take care of duplicates
        $pee = preg_replace('/\n?(.+?)(?:\n\s*\n|\z)/s', "<p>$1</p>\n", $pee); // make paragraphs, including one at the end
        $pee = preg_replace('|<p>\s*?</p>|', '', $pee); // under certain strange conditions it could create a P of entirely whitespace
        $pee = preg_replace('!<p>\s*(</?(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|colgroup|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|hr|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])[^>]*>)\s*</p>!', "$1", $pee); // don't pee all over a tag
        $pee = preg_replace("|<p>(<li.+?)</p>|", "$1", $pee); // problem with nested lists
        $pee = preg_replace('|<p><blockquote([^>]*)>|i', "<blockquote$1><p>", $pee);
        $pee = str_replace('</blockquote></p>', '</p></blockquote>', $pee);
        $pee = preg_replace('!<p>\s*(</?(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|colgroup|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|hr|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])[^>]*>)!', "$1", $pee);
        $pee = preg_replace('!(</?(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|colgroup|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])[^>]*>)\s*</p>!', "$1", $pee);
        if ($br) $pee = preg_replace('|(?<!<br />)\s*\n|', "<br />\n", $pee);

        $pee = preg_replace('!(</?(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])[^>]*>)\s*<br />!', "$1", $pee);
        $pee = preg_replace('!<br />(\s*</?(?:p|li|div|dl|dd|dt|th|pre|td|ul|ol)>)!', '$1', $pee);
        $pee = preg_replace('!(<pre.*?>)(.*?)</pre>!ise', " stripslashes('$1') .  stripslashes(clean_pre('$2'))  . '</pre>' ", $pee);

        return $pee;
} [/code]

thanks

[Orio]

You can use [url=http://www.php.net/stripslashes]stripslashes()[/url] :)

Orio.

[ralph4100]

in case anyone was wondering that code is from wordpress

[Skeleten Neteleks]

The code already has stripslashes in it at the bottom....

$pee = preg_replace('!(<pre.*?>)(.*?)</pre>!ise', " stripslashes('$1') .  stripslashes(clean_pre('$2'))  . '</pre>' ", $pee);

do i need to do anything to make it remove slashes from apostrophies and speech marks, or should it already do this?

[Orio]

The fact is, that $pee is still escaped.
Change- return $pee;
To- return stripslashes($pee);

Orio.

[Skeleten Neteleks]

thanks, that did the job :)