Question

I want to add a html table into a text field in a MySQL database. Retrieving the data is not a problem it is the way the data is returned. Wherever there is quotation marks “” a backslash is added before it, how do i stop this/ rectify it?

example of what i mean:

<tr>
<td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;">Win</td>
<td align="center">15–1</td>
<td><a href="#" title="Frank Mir">Frank Mir</a></td>
<td>TKO (punches)</td>
<td>UFC 146</td>
<td align="center">2</td>
<td align="center">3:04</td>
</tr>

This then returns:

<tr>
<td style=\"background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;\">Win</td>
<td align=\"center\">15–1</td>
<td><a href=\"#\" title=\"Frank Mir\">Frank Mir</a></td>
<td>TKO (punches)</td>
<td>UFC 146</td>
<td align=\"center\">2</td>
<td align=\"center\">3:04</td>
</tr>

any help greatly appreciated 😀

Answer 1

See the PHP manual for

• mysql-real-escape-string
• function.stripslashes