sending email translates ' to \' 1

[Einstein47]

Hey all,

I have a form where I can enter a message in a textarea and when I click submit the form contents are emailed to me with the mail() function. However, in my message when I use a ' , it will show up in my email as \' .

How do I keep the backslash from showing up?

Here is a snip of my code:

    if ($mailformat == "Text")
    {
      mail($toText, $subjectText, $msgText, "To: $toText\n"."From: $fromText\n" ."X-Mailer: PHP 4.x");
    }
    if ($mailformat == "Html")
    {
      $headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
      $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
      $headers .= &quot;From: Me <me@my_email.com>\r\n&quot;;

      $headers = str_replace(&quot;\r&quot;, &quot;\n&quot;,   $headers);
      $headers = str_replace(&quot;\n\n&quot;, &quot;\n&quot;, $headers);
      $headers = str_replace(&quot;\n&quot;, &quot;\r\n&quot;, $headers);

      mail($toText, $subjectText, $msgText, $headers);
    }

You see the $msgText variable is from the <TEXTAREA name=msgText> tag. What function would I need, and where exactly should I put it?

Any help would be appreciated,

Einstein47
(&quot;There are no atheists when restoring from backup.&quot

 

[spookie]

$msgtext = stripslashes($msgtext) ;

http://www.php.net/function.stripslashes

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[DRJ478]

Whenever a mail question that involves more than simple plain text messages comes up I recommend to look at PHPMailer - a class that handles mail beautifully and is stacked with options. No need to tackle RFC### ....

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net

 

[Einstein47]

Thanks - the stripslash() was exactly what I needed.

And I'll look into PHPMailer too - thanks.

Einstein47
(&quot;There are no atheists when restoring from backup.&quot