Oops; wasn't complete in my question! I don't have a problem in browsers because they ignore the backslash if I leave it in. The problem is when I am creating an email because the email applications don't ignore the backslash, but show it as \" or \' so I have to remove them. Steve On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:49 AM, steve miller wrote: > 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 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Are you looking for a PHP job? Join the PHP Professionals directory Now! http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: php-objects-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx php-objects-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
