I have a simple but perplexing problem I could use some help with. I am storing user text input strings in mysql, and am escaping ' and " with addslashes. When I pull them out and use stripslashes, I sometimes get errors because I don't know if they have a ' or a " in the string. Example 1 String is: I'm cool This works: echo "I'm cool"; This does not: echo 'I'm cool'; Example 2 String is: You are "cool" This works: echo 'You are "cool"'; This does not: echo "You are "cool""; Example 3 String is: I'm "cool" This does not work: echo "I'm "cool""; This does not work: echo 'I'm "cool"'; So, how do I output strings of unknown content? Thanks for any guidance. Steve
