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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:43:28+00:00

I have a PHP script that stores my code snippets. To insert, I use:

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I have a PHP script that stores my code snippets.
To insert, I use:

$snippet_code = mysqli_real_escape_string($conn,trim($_POST['snippet_code']));

To display, I use the following which is wrapped in a pre tag:

$snippet_code = htmlentities($row['SnippetText']);

I notice that sometimes I get a lot of escape characters like \\\\ when the snippet is displayed on the page. The escape characters are present wherever single or double quotes appear in the code. The problem seems to be more severe in non-English language browsers.

How can I properly do this? How can I properly store and display code on a page?

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  1. Editorial Team

    From your comments, it seems that you are in fact talking about slashes found before quotes.

    It’s not clear from the limited information you’ve given us why non-English browsers would show more of these.

    However, it is likely that these slashes should not be present in the first place. Perhaps you are running mysql_real_escape_string several times, instead of just once… but, again, nothing you’ve shown us indicates that.

    Either way, you should fix the data in the database and not just hack around the issue on display.

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