extra \ in the mail message

[mtzheng]

i use php to process mail form.
Mail was sent successfully.

but in the message

isn't that cool?

becomes

isn\'t that cool?

there's an extra slash. is there a way to fix this?

also when we check and validate the user input from the mail form,
is it better to do it on the server side or client side? i.e using javascrip or php?

regards

[Burner]

You need to stripslash your output...

[php.net...]

Burner

[lobo235]

doing form validation with PHP is much safer. There are an increasing number of people who are disabling javascript in their browsers. To avoid the extra slashses problem use the stripslashes() function that is built into php.

[mtzheng]

Thank you, thank you.
Burner and lobo235
That really fixed it.