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Correctly encode characters in a PHP mail form (“I'm” turns to be “I\'m”)

I’m sending an email over PHP and the text arrives with a slash right before the quotation mark:

I'm becomes I\'m

My PHP:

$text_message = $_POST["mymessage"];       


$message="--PHP-mixed-$bound_text\r\n"      
            ."Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"utf-8\"\r\n"
 ."Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n" 
       ."$text_message\r\n\r\n" 
    ."--PHP-mixed-$bound_text\r\n"  
            ."Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n"
            ."Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$attachment\"\r\n"
."Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=\"$attachment\"\r\n\r\n"
 .chunk_split($file)
        ."\r\n\r\n"
            ."--PHP-mixed-$bound_text--\r\n\r\n";
}

How to get it send without receiving an extra slash?
Thanks.
Uli

Answer 1

This is caused by PHP’s magic quotes which are deprecated but, unfortunately, still enabled by default. In most cases you can disable the feature through a .htaccess file or even through the webhoster’s control panel.

If that’s not possible, it’s safest to check if magic quotes are enabled through get_magic_quotes_gpc() before blindly using stripslashes(). To unescape all $_POST[] variables, use:

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
    foreach($_POST as $k => $v) {
       $_POST[$k] = stripslashes($v);
    }
}