RE: [PHP-GENERAL] Remove double quotes from string

Have you tried 

$mytext=stripslashes($mytext);

??

This is designed for exactly that reason....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spallek, Heiko [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 21:06
> To: 'Liz Kimber'; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [PHP-GENERAL] Remove double quotes from string
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I havent been able to replicate your problem.. Originally you 
> > wanted to
> > change double quotes to nothing, in which case
> > $mytext=str_replace("\"","",$mytext); works OK for me..
> I think I have tracked the problem of the additional "\" which 
> should not be
> there. php3 seems to add to any text field submitted via an HTML 
> form which
> contain double quotes a "\". Probably to prevent trouble when it gets
> further processed. Similar to the lite(mSQL) function 
> msqlEncode($string). 
> 
> Thus, you could not see the problem which I had.
> 
> Strange, any idea how you can trun off this feature? 
> 
> Heiko
> 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Spallek, Heiko [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 20:31
> > > To: '[email protected]'
> > > Cc: '[email protected]'
> > > Subject: RE: [PHP-GENERAL] Remove double quotes from string
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Steff,
> > >
> > > > replace the string delimiting quotes (") by single quotes (')
> > > > and try the following modification of your statements:
> > > >
> > > >   $quoteText = strtr($quoteText, '"', ' ');
> > > >   $quoteText = str_replace('"', ' ', $quoteText);
> > > >
> > > > In general ' and " quotes have exactly the same meaning. But
> > > > be aware of the problems that could araise. Take notice of
> > > > the execution precedence of php, javascript/html and so on...
> > > Thanks a lot!
> > >
> > > When I use it, however, both translate the content of a input
> > > text box from
> > > an HTML form which contains
> > >
> > > 	"Nothing is ..."
> > >
> > > into
> > > 	\Nothing is ...\
> > >
> > > which I don't like. I need the string just plain without the '\'.
> > >
> > > Any idea?
> > >
> > > Heiko
> > >
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