Stripslashes()

Are there any common pitfalls?

[Nick_W]

Hi all

Can't for the life of me work out why I can't seem to use stripslashes()

Whenever the form I'm using is pre-filled with the cookies I've set (username etc) they are slashed :(

I've tried stripslashes($_COOKIE['value']);
and a number of other things to no avail....

Anyone think of where I might look in my code?

Cheers

Nick

[jatar_k]

Nick,

Have you tried adding a step and putting

$somevar = $_COOKIE['value'];
$othervar = stripslashes($somevar);

I know it's longer but just to test if it, for some reason, doesn't want to do it straight out of the cookie.

[Nick_W]

Yes, thanks Jatar, actually I ended up finding the problem in the $_POST array.

When I do this now:

setcookie('val', stripslashes($_POST['val']);

all is well. Strange though as I thought I'd tried that before posting?

Well, weirder things happen when you're knee deep in a simple script grown scary ;)

Cheers

Nick

[ergophobe]

Forget it - I see Nick found the problem. Strange.

Tom