I have a small snippet of code which writes user input to a file.

For some reason, the fputs writes semicolons with an escape character slash, i.e.

user input: it's a nice day, isn't it?

writes as

it\'s a nice day, isn\'t it?


Do I need somehow to tell the fputs that semicolons are OK ? Or perhaps is something happening when the form field data gets parsed and php is adding in that backslash?

Thanks!

I think using the stripslashes function should solve it...

PHP Code:

<?php
$str = "Is your name O\'reilly?";

// Outputs: Is your name O'reilly?
echo stripslashes($str);
?>

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

-James

but only strip slashes as you are putting it into the file. If you need to use this data for anything else first, leave stripslashes out until you need it.... this may sound strange, but as a newbie I stripped slashes before calling a mysql query..... I still wake up screaming at night....

OK, I don't, but be careful!