Jason, can you explain why stripslashes should not be used on data taken from the db? when you store data in the db i thought it was good practice to addslashes, when you retrieve from the db, you will need to use stripslashes to remove the extra \ -- Joseph Crawford Jr. Codebowl Solutions codebowl@xxxxxxxxx -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php