error receiving backslash in form data

[ritwick]

Hi,

I have simple module for submitting a form data and printing it.

The problem is, if there is any occurrence of backslash in the form data, it is doubled! i.e. there are two backslashes instead of one in the received data.

I've tried inserting set_magic_quotes_runtime = 0; , but still have the problem.

Thanks in advance.

 

- Ritwick

 

The form source:

<form name="seldir" id="seldir" action="./add_pages.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="parent_dir" id="parent_dir" value="\admin">
</form>

 

The PHP value catching code in (add_pages.php) :

print 'PARENT: '.($_POST['parent_dir']);

 

The PHP output:

PARENT: \\admin

[conker87]

Hmm, try adding an extra backslash in your value there.

 

<input type="hidden" name="parent_dir" id="parent_dir" value="\\admin">

[ritwick]

Thanks Conker87 for your suggestions. But I get the out put for:

 

<input type="hidden" name="parent_dir" id="parent_dir" value="\\admin">

as

PARENT: \\\\admin

[conker87]

Blegh!

 

If you're value is a directory, shouldn't you be using forward slashes (/) anyway?

[conker87]

Just ignore that. Just realised what I posted.

 

It's abit of a pickle that, have you tried using stripslashes()? Other than that I'm totally perplexed (might be because I stuck at work bored!)

[ritwick]

Nevermind. I've used a bruteforce approach and now my code works correctly after modifying the PHP into:

 

$pardir= trim($_POST['parent_dir']);
$pardir= str_replace('\\\\','\\',$pardir);
print $pardir;

 

Thanks again for your prompt reply friend!