PHP urlencode and decode

Question

All,

There is a text area say

 <input type="submit">

And if a user gives the input as,

 here is my name  and my mail id is "[email protected]" 

And when the data is posted on the server side the data is received as here is my name and my mail id is \"[email protected]\"

Backslash is added behind double quotes.Now how to encode the the data before submitting.I am using php on the server side..

Thanks.

Answer 1

this is magic_quotes_gpc kicking in - to remove it just disable it in php.ini or remove it using stripslashes($your_var);

though bear in mind that this is a (lousy) security feature of php, but when storing the data to a database you should use the respective escape functions to prevent sql injections anyway and when showing user-posted data your sanitizing function should prevent xss injections.