Cant get rid of Apostrophes keep getting backslashes

[gokeeffe]

Each time I enter a name with an Apostrophy ikeep getting

backslashes eg O'keeffe becomes O/'keeffe

Here is a sample of the code what I'm using

// Function for escaping and trimming form data.

function escape_data ($data)
{
global $dbc;
if (ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc'))
{
$data = stripslashes($data);
}
return mysql_real_escape_string (trim ($data), $dbc);
} // End of escape_data() function



// Validation Code


// Check for a username

if (eregi ("^[[:alnum:]_]{4,20}$", stripslashes(trim($_POST['username']))))

{
$u = escape_data($_POST['username']);
}

else
{
$u = FALSE;
echo '<p class="validation">Please enter a valid username!</p>';
}


// Form Code

<tr>
<td colspan="2" class="labelcell"><label for = "username">1. Username</label></td>
<td colspan="2" class="fieldcell"><input type="text" name="username" size="20" maxlength="20"
value="<?php if(isset($_POST['username'])) echo $_POST['username'];?>"/>
</td>
</tr>



What am I doing wrong trying to fix it for the last 3 weeks

driving me crazy.

Tks

Gaz

 

[kenrbnsn]

You don't say where you're seeing the escaped quotes, but I will assume you're seeing them in

<td colspan="2" class="fieldcell"><input type="text" name="username" size="20" maxlength="20"
value="<?php if(isset($_POST['username'])) echo $_POST['username'];?>"/>

Just change the "echo $_POST['username']" to "echo stripslashes($_POST['username'])".

If that's not where you're seeing them, let us know where.

Ken

 

[gokeeffe]

Ken

Great Stuff worked a treat, i'm new to this stuff.

Many thanks my friend

Gaz