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
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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