stripslashes

Sometimes for some reason is happens that PHP or Javascript or some naughty insert a lot of  backslash. Ordinary function does not notice that. Therefore, it is necessary that the bit "inflate":<?phpfunction removeslashes($string){    $string=implode("",explode("\\",$string));    return stripslashes(trim($string));}/* Example */$text="My dog don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t like the postman!";echo removeslashes($text);?>RESULT: My dog don't like the postman!This flick has served me wery well, because I had this problem before.

Hi, Here are recursive addslashes / stripslashes functions.given a string - it will simply add / strip slashesgiven an array - it will recursively add / strip slashes from the array and all of it subarrays. if the value is not a string or array - it will remain unmodified!<?phpfunction add_slashes_recursive( $variable ){    if ( is_string( $variable ) )        return addslashes( $variable ) ;    elseif ( is_array( $variable ) )        foreach( $variable as $i => $value )            $variable[ $i ] = add_slashes_recursive( $value ) ;    return $variable ;}function strip_slashes_recursive( $variable ){    if ( is_string( $variable ) )        return stripslashes( $variable ) ;    if ( is_array( $variable ) )        foreach( $variable as $i => $value )            $variable[ $i ] = strip_slashes_recursive( $value ) ;        return $variable ; }?>

A replacement that should be safe on utf-8 strings.<?php  preg_replace(array('/\x5C(?!\x5C)/u', '/\x5C\x5C/u'), array('','\\'), $s);?>

If you need to remove all slashes from a string, here's a quick hack:

<?php
function stripallslashes($string) {
    while(strchr($string,'\\')) {
        $string = stripslashes($string);
    }
}
?>

Hope it's usefull , O-Zone

in response to crab dot crab at gmail dot com:$value need not be passed by reference. The 'stripped' value is returned. The passed value is not altered.

Might I warn readers that they should be vary careful with the use of stripslashes on Japanese text. The shift_jis character set includes a number of two-byte code charcters that contain the hex-value 0x5c (backslash) which will get stripped by this function thus garbling those characters.What a nightmare!