[thelist] replacing whacks in PHP

[NanHarbisonSmith at aol.com]

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Joel,
When you are entering the text to the database, you use the
addslashes() function:
$sometext = addslashes($sometext);
then when you retrieve it from the db, use the
stripslashes():
$sometext = stripslashes($sometext);
Nan

In a message dated 7/7/2002 6:11:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
joel at spinhead.com writes:


> Writing to the db, I'm escaping the single and double quotes with whacks \
>
> When they come back from the db, there they are, large as life.
>
> How do I replace '\' with '' (nothing) ?
>
> I've looked at strtr, ereg_replace, str_replace - all I want is VBScript's
> simple 'replace' syntax.
>
> joel
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