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The1corrupted
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Okay, this is somewhat annoying but I need to escape backslashes to make something look nice.

[PHP]
<?php
if ($mesgread[0]=="/" AND $user!=$otheruser) {
$action=explode(" ", $msg, 2);
$_SESSION['chat']=$_SESSION['chat'].$action[1]."<br>";
echo $META
}
[/PHP]
This all works fin and dandy but when I go to echo the $_SESSION['chat'], backslashes appear before quotes.. Say $action[1]="This said "STUFF" and disappeared" it would end up echoing "This said \"STUFF\" and disappeared".
Mar 6 '07 #1
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ronverdonk
4,258 Recognized Expert Specialist
Use the stripslashes command in php. See the standard php documentation about the use of escape characters.

string stripslashes ( string $str )

Returns a string with backslashes stripped off. (\' becomes ' and so on.) Double backslashes (\\) are made into a single backslash (\).
Ronald :cool:
Mar 6 '07 #2

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