Help, please...stripslashes problem.

Why doesn't this work?

[ksponline]

Hi,

I don't understand why form results still have slashes in them after using stripslashes (comments: This is and isn\'t a test of a form. \"What do you think or don\'t think?\"
)

What's wrong with the code? I've tried various things and searched forums and google, but I can't determine what I need to do.

<?php
$PageTitle = "Comments";
$name = stripslashes(trim($name));
$email = stripslashes(trim($email));
$comments = stripslashes(trim($comments)); // Tried with and without this line
  
   foreach($HTTP_POST_VARS as $key => $value) 
   {
   if ($value!="") { 
       $message .= $key . ": " . $value;
    $message = stripslashes(trim($message));
    $message .= "\n";
      }
   } 
   mail("[e-mail]","Comment Submission","$message","From: $name <$email>"); 
   header ("Location: /fileupload/confirm_2.php");
?> 

This has plagued me for a long time...I'm hoping some php guru will share some insight and wisdom.

Thanks,
ksp

[coopster]

I'm not quite sure I fully understand your issue but one problem I notice is that you are overwriting your $message variable during each iteration of your loop:

foreach($HTTP_POST_VARS as $key => $value) 
{ 
if ($value!="") { 
$message .= $key . ": " . $value; 
$message = stripslashes(trim($message)); 
$message .= "\n"; 
} 
}  

Try this:

$message = ''; 
foreach($HTTP_POST_VARS as $key => $value) { 
 if ($value!="") $message .= $key . ": " . stripslashes(trim($value)) . "\n"; 
}  

[ksponline]

Many, many thanks. That worked! I appreciate your taking time to show me the correct code.

Kind regards,
ksp