I think you should use addslashes to store the text in the database and then stripslashes when displaying the text. I think that should work, but I'm new to PHP so I might be wrong. Jerry -----Original Message----- From: Chris Payne [mailto:chris@planetoxygene.com] Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 2:11 PM To: php Subject: question about ' Hi there everyone, I am having alittle problem. I am calling some text that has a ' in it in the DB, but when it is being displayed on the screen the ' becomes a ? any ideas? I'm displaying just with a <?=$ctitle?> and everything works great except that. I just read about addslashes and stripslashes etc ..... but not sure if that's relevant to this being that the data in the DB has a single ' already there. Anyway help would be appreciated :-) Regards Chris -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php