print function is adding / before '

[npsari]

 

hi there everyone,

 

I am using a Noraml HTML form to submit Text

 

When a user clicks on the submit button, a page opens up which previews what the user has typed

 

print"<font color=\"#000000\" Font size=\"3\" Font face=Arial ><b>$Text12</b></font>";

 

But the above little code, always puts an / if the user types ' or "

 

How can i avoid that, why does it put the / symbol before special characters

 

Help guys 

 

 

[nathanmaxsonadil]

my guess is you are using http://us.php.net/addslashes

[nathanmaxsonadil]

you can remove addslashes or if you can't do that add http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

[npsari]

I am just using the normal print function

 

Print"";

 

but it always does it

 

Ohh, i cant use the stripslashes, because the user will not know that he should put / before '

[nathanmaxsonadil]

did you add slashes to $Text1?

[npsari]

how can i add slashes, i dont understand

 

the $Text12 is a Text area in an HTML form

 

And i use this to echo it

 

print"<font color=\"#000000\" Font size=\"3\" Font face=Arial >$Text12</font>";

 

Users write anything in that Text area

 

but when they put '  the print echos it ok, but puts / before it

[nathanmaxsonadil]

did you do somthing like this?

addslashes($Text12);

[wildteen88]

Your php setup most probably has a setting called magic_quotes_gpc. This setting will automatically escape quotes within _GET, _POST and _COOKIE data

 

What you'll want to is:

print"<font color=\"#000000\" Font size=\"3\" Font face=Arial >" . stripslashes($Text12) . "</font>";

[Glyde]

Or the seemingly more standardized workaround:

 

print get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($Text12) : $Test12;

[npsari]

Thanks guys,

 

i will try all of them

 

and if i had any trouble, i will re open the issue