[FX.php List] FX/FM escaping quotes with a backslash?

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

You forgot to do stripslashes()?

2008/4/10, Kevin Futter <kfutter at sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au>:
> On 10/04/08 1:39 PM, "Tim 'Webko' Booth" <tim at nicheit.com.au> wrote:
>
>  >>
>  >> I've been all over my code and I can't find anything that's doing
>  >> this, so
>  >> I'm assuming it's either FX (not likely) or FM's XML interface. If
>  >> it's the
>  >> latter, the only thing I can think of is that the submitting page is
>  >> encoded
>  >> as ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8, and FM is 'handling' that by escaping
>  >> non-ASCII characters. An educated but rather wild guess, really.
>  >
>  > I've had this occur every now and again, but never delved too deeply
>  > into why - the places it happened were my own testing pages, so I
>  > basically ignored it ;-)
>  >
>  > Maybe you could apply a stripslashes to it before inserting and see if
>  > that makes a difference?
>  >
>  > Cheers
>  >
>  > Webko
>
>
> Thanks Tim. Just gave it a go but it made no difference. This more-or-less
>  confirms for me that it's not FX or PHP doing it, but rather, something on
>  the FM side - most likely the XML interface. Luckily it's only an internal
>  page that us technical staff use, so it's no biggie from that perspective,
>  but I'm still stumped about the 'why'.
>
>
>  --
>  Kevin Futter
>  Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
>  http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
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