Escaping certain characters

[xeonaphobe]

Hi,

I was wondering if it would be possible to escape certain characters in a string. In this case, the user enters a string and I wish to escape every quotation mark within the string.
How would I go about doing this?

Thanks!
Neil

[hakre]

take a look here, i guess that's what you need: addslashes() [de2.php.net] ;) .

[xeonaphobe]

Ooh, that'll do nicely :) Ty!

Neil

[xeonaphobe]

argh actually, no it won't. It's escaping everything nicely, the problem now is that whenever the user adds a comment with quotation marks in it, the escape character shows up when it's displayed.
Is there anyway I can echo the string, but not the escapes?
Or even just remove all the quotation marks altogether?
Neil

[Timotheos]

stripslashes [de2.php.net]

Tim

[dmmh]

to insert it into the database, use addslashes() like suggested, or even better mysql_real_escape_string()
because this will insert the slashes into the table, you need to strip these before you echo out any of the contents with stripslashes()