php esacping single quotes

[mudassar]

Hello

I've been trying to figure this problem out for quite a while and I'm
having no joy.
I'll give you some background info, I'm creating a form and one of the
fields in the form is a big text area that I want to use to write to
a text file. This works fine but the problem is all the single quotes
are get escaped with slashes.

I want to write to the text file with out the quotes getting escaped,
I've tried htmlentities but that doesn't seem to work.
Here is a snippet of the code.

$Desc_file = date("dmYHis");
$Desc_new = htmlentities($desc, ENT_QUOTES);
$filePath = "/public_html/nsite/info";
$WriteToFile = fopen("$filePath/$Desc_file","w+");
fwrite ($WriteToFile, $Desc_new);
fclose ($WriteToFile);

Any ideas would be fantastic Thanks in advance for your help

Mudassar

[Jon Kraft]

mu******@aircandy.co.uk (mudassar) wrote:

I want to write to the text file with out the quotes getting escaped,
I've tried htmlentities but that doesn't seem to work.
Here is a snippet of the code.

Er?? Your previous post (yesterday) has been answered.

JOn

[Five Cats]

In message <86**************************@posting.google.com >, mudassar
<mu******@aircandy.co.uk> writes

Hello

I've been trying to figure this problem out for quite a while and I'm
having no joy.
I'll give you some background info, I'm creating a form and one of the
fields in the form is a big text area that I want to use to write to
a text file. This works fine but the problem is all the single quotes
are get escaped with slashes.

I want to write to the text file with out the quotes getting escaped,
I've tried htmlentities but that doesn't seem to work.
Here is a snippet of the code.

$Desc_file = date("dmYHis");
$Desc_new = htmlentities($desc, ENT_QUOTES);
$filePath = "/public_html/nsite/info";
$WriteToFile = fopen("$filePath/$Desc_file","w+");
fwrite ($WriteToFile, $Desc_new);
fclose ($WriteToFile);

Any ideas would be fantastic Thanks in advance for your help
I *think* this will help:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

I realised I have the same problem with a particular page, but haven't
tried the cure yet!

Mudassar

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[Rahul Anand]

mu******@aircandy.co.uk (mudassar) wrote in message news:<86**************************@posting.google. com>...

Hello

I've been trying to figure this problem out for quite a while and I'm
having no joy.
I'll give you some background info, I'm creating a form and one of the
fields in the form is a big text area that I want to use to write to
a text file. This works fine but the problem is all the single quotes
are get escaped with slashes.

I want to write to the text file with out the quotes getting escaped,
I've tried htmlentities but that doesn't seem to work.
Here is a snippet of the code.

$Desc_file = date("dmYHis");
$Desc_new = htmlentities($desc, ENT_QUOTES);
$filePath = "/public_html/nsite/info";
$WriteToFile = fopen("$filePath/$Desc_file","w+");
fwrite ($WriteToFile, $Desc_new);
fclose ($WriteToFile);

Any ideas would be fantastic Thanks in advance for your help

Mudassar

Hi Mudassar,

Here is the modified code to handle the escaped single quotes.

// Start of Code

$Desc_file = date("dmYHis");

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc())
$Desc_new = stripcslashes($desc);
else
$Desc_new = $desc;

$filePath = "/public_html/nsite/info";
$WriteToFile = fopen("$filePath/$Desc_file","w+");
fwrite ($WriteToFile, $Desc_new);
fclose ($WriteToFile);
// End of code
*Magic Quotes GPC* is a PHP_INI setting. When it is set ON all the
single quotes coming from any form are escaped with character \.
Default setting for the Magic Quotes GPC is ON.

Hope it will help....

-- Rahul