Stripslashes is the function i was looking for. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Harpreet [mailto:harpreet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 1:16 PM To: Antonio CS; php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: read an xml string from a form field POST or get both don't work I guess because of the < > characters ________________________________ From: Antonio CS [mailto:antoniocs@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:59 PM To: Harpreet Subject: Re: read an xml string from a form field Why not use $_POST? On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Harpreet <harpreet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have a simple form with a textarea to receive an xml string. My xml string is something like this: <Filter_1> <Module_0></Module_0> </Filter_1> How can I request the value in my php page $_GET wont work. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php