Removing backslashes from form contents

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August 14th, 2003, 09:51 PM

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Removing backslashes from form contents

Hi -

When my form results arrive at my designated e-mail address, I get backslashes accompanying all the apostrophes and quotation marks.

Any way to correct this?

Example: it\'s, hasn\'t

I'm new to PHP, so it's got to be pretty easy for me to implement - I just tweek the variables and cross my fingers... it's worked so far.

Here's the code:

<? include ("common.php"); ?>

PHP Code:


		
			
<? 

$Message = "Name: $name\n";

$Message .= "How did you find us: $find\n";

$Message .= "Email: $email\n";

$Message .= "URL: $address\n";

$Message .= ".................\n";

$Message .= "Message: $message\n";

$Message .= "\n";

$Message .= ".................\n";

$Message .= "$HTTP_USER_AGENT\n";

mail("$admin_email", "$email_subject", $Message , "From: $email");

?>

common.php script:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?

$admin_email = "info@fond-regards.com";  // Your email address

$email_subject = "Customer response";  // Email Subject

?>

If you need more info, let me know.

Thanks!

Robsta

August 15th, 2003, 12:03 AM

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PHP Code:


		
			
 mail("$admin_email", "$email_subject", stripslashes($Message) , "From: $email");

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August 15th, 2003, 10:03 AM

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That was easy - thanks!!

Thanks Laidbak.

Robsta -

August 15th, 2003, 12:22 PM

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Anytime Robsta...

August 15th, 2003, 10:33 PM

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You can also set this up to work across multiple platforms (ie: one server has gpc enabled and you use the same app on another that has it disabled):

PHP Code:


		
			
function strip_slashes( $data )

{

    if ( ( bool )get_magic_quotes_gpc() )

    {

        return( stripslashes( $data ) );

    }

    else

    {

        return( $data );

    }

}





mail("$admin_email", "$email_subject", strip_slashes($Message) , "From: $email");

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August 15th, 2003, 11:05 PM

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Thanks!

Thanks jpenn -

I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Robsta

August 18th, 2003, 09:18 PM

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Also if you are looking at parsing form data, you may want to check SafeExtract

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