add this to the configuration file where $name is the name of the field you want to stripslashes from $name = stripslashes($name); Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard at niicommunications.com> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:21 AM Subject: RE: [thelist] EMail format question. [snip] "It's me again." And in the resulting email, I get this: "It\'s me again." What to do? [/snip] http://www.php.net/stripslashes -- * * Please support the community that supports you. * * http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and archives of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !