In chapter ten on the editor script when ever I have either a “ or a ‘ in the script it adds a / before the “ or ‘. I tried to find what is causing this but have had no luck. I know the script is copied correctly because I downloaded the script and got the same problem.
Thanks

The forward slashes are added to all data that comes into a PHP script from outside sources. This prevents a malicious user from running DB quries or executing script directly from your form input fields. This is called the magic_quotes_gpc directive. gpc stands for GET, POST and COOKIE, the three methods of outside input.

To get rid of the slashes you have to run stripslashes() on the data before outputting it for display, but not before storing in a DB, as this would allow the vulnerability I just mentioned.

http://www.php.net/stripslashes
http://www.php.net/addslashes

Regards,
Rich

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How could I get this to work when I am editing a full page? The part I have most problems with is:

<p class="date">May 12</p><p class="content">etc<p>

and it changes it to

<p class=/"date/">May 12</p><p class=/"content/">etc<p>

I know richard has the problems found and knows how to fix it, I just can't get it to work with what im doing.

My guess is that you're doing it something like this:

echo "<p class='" . $date . "'>May 12</p><p class='" . $content . "'>etc</p>";

Try this instead:

$date = stripslashes($date);
$content = stripslashes($content);
echo "<p class='" . $date . "'>May 12</p><p class='" . $content . "'>etc</p>";

HTH,

Snib

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Ok, sorry I misspelled the function...it's stripslashes not strip_slashes.

Right, if you're editing a page of content, as in a textarea or something like that you can strip out the slashes by putting the variable containing the content through stripslashes.

echo stripslashes($_POST['content']);

Now your HTML source won't have the forward slashes in the source.

Regards,
Rich

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