On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:56:33 +0700, "Paul S" wrote: > Can anyone please tell me how the addslashes output ("note = Everyone''s a > card on the \earth") in the following example is possible. It is > "addslashes" output but this result is consistent with the output from > "post" when runtime is set: 1): a single quote is inserted before a single > quote and nothing is added before " or \. ... > <?php > $note = "Everyone's a card on the \earth"; > echo "<br>$note<br>"; > $note = addslashes($note); > echo "<br>note = $note<br>"; > ?> ... > output: > > Everyone's a card on the \earth > > note = Everyone''s a card on the \earth <http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.addslashes.php> "Having the PHP directive magic_quotes_sybase set to on will mean ' is instead escaped with another '." Both "\e" and "\\e" produces the same output. /Nisse -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php