Please help me allow apostrophes(') in form fields

Hello. I am trying to allow users to enter apostrophes into html form fields, but I am encountering a lot of problems. It seems that automatically the $_POST variable inserts a \' for every apostrophe. This would be find except that now I have a php variable with a \' in it. Here is the problem:


$form_input = "John's Party"

If I use echo "$form_input";
=> John\'s Party

If I use echo '$form_input';
=> $form_input

If I use strtr("\","","$form_input) or str_replace("/","",$form_input)
=> I get a parse error because it recognizes \" as one character.

How can I get rid of the \. I use "" for all my echo statements so I don't ever need it anyway.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. THIS IS REALLY STUMPING ME (Yes, I'm pretty new to PHP).

Theres a php function called strip_slashes (might be stripSlashes) that will remove them for you.

-KM-

When you enclose a variable name in apostrophes, PHP thinks you want to display the field.

HTH,
Bud

If I use strtr("\","","$form_input) or str_replace("/","",$form_input)

You have to escape the slash... str_replace("\\","",$form_input) would have worked...

A slash itself is usually used to escape special characters in a string (such as single quote, double quotes, and a backslash)...
For example, if you wanted to put quotes in your string you would use \" within the string... when printed to the screen it usually displays without the backslash...

Example:
$str="So then he said \"Spam sucks\"";
$coolW="\\/\\/"; (would display \/\/)

$str="So then he said "Spam sucks""; would throw an error

However, in your case stripslashes() is a much better solution =)