Write to file?

[The Hobo]

I have a simple form on my page that contains a textarea. I am saving the text in this textarea to a specified file in an input field. The problem is that when the text is saved to the file, it adds '\' before characters like quotes (single and double) and other things. How can I prevent this?

[scoutt]

add

$variable = htmlspecialchars($variable)

and / or make sure the magic_quotes_gpc is on in php.ini file.

[The Hobo]

With that code, the file contents end up looking like this:

<pre style=\"background:#F4F4F4;\"><!-- WARNING: This tag is required to maintain spacing! --><font color=\"#008800\">\'Coded by Kristopher Wilson \'http://www.mindlessdrone.com/ \'[email protected] \' \'Create a form with two command buttons and drop \'in the following code to see how to use the FlashWindow \'API </font> <font color=\"#000088\">Private Declare Function </font>FlashWindowEx <font color=\"#000088\">Lib </font>\"user32\" _ (pfwi <font color=\"#000088\">As </font>FLASHWINFO) <font color=\"#000088\">As Boolean </font> <font color=\"#000088\">Private </font>Type FLASHWINFO cbSize <font color=\"#000088\">As Long </font> hwnd <font color=\"#000088\">As Long </font> dwFlags <font color=\"#000088\">As Long </font> uCount <font color=\"#000088\">As Long </font> dwTimeout <font color=\"#000088\">As Long End </font>Type <font color=\"#000088\">Const </font>FLASHW_STOP = 0 <font color=\"#000088\">Const </font>FLASHW_CAPTION = &H1 <font color=\"#000088\">Const </font>FLASHW_TRAY = &H2 <font color=\"#000088\">Const </font>FLASHW_ALL = (FLASHW_CAPTION <font color=\"#000088\">Or </font>FLASHW_TRAY) <font color=\"#000088\">Const </font>FLASHW_TIMER = &H4 <font color=\"#000088\">Const </font>FLASHW_TIMERNOFG = &HC <font color=\"#000088\">Dim </font>flshWindow <font color=\"#000088\">As </font>FLASHWINFO <font color=\"#000088\">Private Sub </font>Command1_Click() <font color=\"#000088\">With </font>flshWindow .cbSize = Len(flshWindow) .dwFlags = FLASHW_ALL <font color=\"#000088\">Or </font>FLASHW_TIMER .dwTimeout = 0 .hwnd = Me.hwnd .uCount = 0 <font color=\"#000088\">End With </font> FlashWindowEx flshWindow <font color=\"#000088\">End Sub </font> <font color=\"#000088\">Private Sub </font>Command2_Click() flshWindow.dwFlags = FLASHW_STOP FlashWindowEx flshWindow <font color=\"#000088\">End Sub </font></pre>

[The Hobo]

Is there a way I can just strip the '\' characters out of it?

[scoutt]

Originally posted by scoutt
make sure the magic_quotes_gpc is on in php.ini file.

[chrisjk]

Try passing it through the stripslashes() function

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by scoutt
make sure the magic_quotes_gpc is on in php.ini file.

If I knew where the php.ini file was, maybe...

[The Hobo]

Originally posted by chrisjk
Try passing it through the stripslashes() function

You da man Thanks!