Question

I use a similar form on a regular basis and have just become aware that whenever a single OR double quotation mark is inputted into the form the output to myself (through email) displays the quotation mark as the ASCII code so \' with a backslash ive looked around and dipped into unique character encodings specialentities but cant seem to find anything that will help output it as a normal quotation mark.

Answer 1

It is an old security feature from PHP called “Magic Quotes”. All Quotes from GET- and POST varables are escaped with the backslash.

You can disable it by changing the value of magic_quotes_gpc to off in your servers php.ini or manually sanitize the strings using stripslashes($string).