On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 19:54 -0500, MikeP wrote: > Hello, > I have been trying to use fread to open a file, but it always escapes > special characters. > How do I open afile without it modifying my original file: > > $_POST[$fname] = fread($fileHandle, $_POST[$fname.'_size']); > I use this and get slashes everywhere.This kills my REGex that gets coded > next. Check this magically shitty setting in your php.ini: magic_quotes_runtime It should be off unless someone with less brains than a turd got a hold of your ini file. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php