He is referring to a question that is answered here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.encoding
Spoiler: htmlspecialchars() -> http://www.php.net/htmlspecialchars Regards, Philip Olson On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Justin French wrote: > on 21/12/02 2:00 PM, Alexander Guevara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It works.. but when you retrieve the data from the database to a text box it > > doesnt appear if it has the single quote ('), o tought it was cause i have > > the stripslashes but i delete stripslashes and it still doesnt appear in the > > text box! > > Huh? I can't really understand what you're saying. > > If you're adding stuff to a database, and getting an error, use > addslashes(), then on the way out of the database, you need to > stripslashes(). Easy. > > If you don't get any errors, then magic quotes is probably enabled in your > php.ini file. > > > Justin > > > > > > "Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > don't filter the quotes... escape them with add_slashes() > > > > justin > > > > on 20/12/02 10:50 PM, ŞüYam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >> as title that I'm getting a trouble on filtering the single quote ' , > > since > >> there would be error when storing those string into MySQL, thus, i have to > >> find the appropriate method to solve it, anybody can help please? > >> thx a lot > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php