BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thats exactly what I was looking for. I'm not doing anything with MySQL so I am going to leave Magic Quotes on and just use stripslashes() Thanks a bunch. "Richard Lynch" <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2959.66.99.91.45.1109788187.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Aaron Todd wrote: >> I've created a simple script that takes in image and draws some lines and >> some text on top of it. I am having a problem with the text part of >> this. >> When the string that I am drawing on the image contains and apostrophe >> ( ' >> ) >> there is always a backslash ( \ ) before it. It make sense that it is >> the >> escape character, but I need to be able to show the apostrophe. Anyone >> have >> any ideas about this? >> >> <?php >> $backdir = "/var/www/html/backgrounds/"; >> $im = ImageCreatefromJPEG($backdir.$_GET['background']); > > Because you have Magic Quotes GPC on, all GET/POST/COOKIE data > automatically has addslashes called on it, before you see it. > > That's "good" because you are probably usually putting your data into a > MySQL database that needs that. > > In this case, though, you want to use http://php.net/stripslashes to > "undo" the automated addslashes of Magic Quotes. > > Or, if your site mostly/only takes GET data and puts it on images, and > rarely puts it into the database, go ahead and turn Magic Quotes GPC "off" > in php.ini (or in your .htaccess) > > Note that you can't turn it off in your script with ini_set since the GPC > data is already altered by the time your script starts. > > GD is not really directly involved, per se, in this issue. You'd have the > same problem if you were putting your GET data into a file, or displaying > it directly to the user, or pretty much doing anything at all with it > *except* for stuffing it into MySQL. > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
