Form data is always escaped with a backslash

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Question:

I am posting a form with text fields to a php script and it appears that when I read out the fields using
$_POST['fieldname'],
then all quotes (single and double) are preceded by a backslash.

How can I turn that off?

Answer:

The original (\ escaped) version is actually useful if you need to insert the data into a database. However, for display purposes or to write it to a text file, you'll better do without them.

You can either change the setting of magic_quotes, see detailed information here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php

.. or, if you do not have access to that file (or do not want to change it), then you can call

stripslashes($identifier)
This function returns the unescaped string (slashes are removed, as the function's name suggests.)

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