querystring problem

[Beething]

I'm very new to php, so bear with me. I'm trying to use a variable from a querystring but I'm having trouble. The querystring is:

<a href="gallery3.php?galleryid='greydisplay'">

and the code is:

$gallery = $_GET['galleryid');

Problem is if I print that retrieved value ( i.e print $gallery it displays as:

\'greydisplay\' (as opposed to just greydisplay)

WHere are the slash and quote mark coming from??

 

[Beething]

Forget it, I've figured it out. There was an error in the querystring. (too many quotes).