Matt, love your show! Use the addslahses function to escape ' " \ characters. See http://php.net/addslashes for details. Jimmy Brock "Matthew Perry" <mwperry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:405E6BD8.9010502@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > I am trying to allow my users to enter quotes in their strings. For > instance instead of writing: 2 inch rod, they can write 2 " rod. The > problem is, of course, that " ends the string and all that is saved is > any value before the ". How do I get around this without using textarea? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php