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[Chris Shiflett]

--- Phil Powell <soazine at erols.com> wrote:
> What combo of stripslashes() and htmlspecialchars() do I use
> to ensure I get a single-line entity from an HTML textarea

I think something like this will work, assuming $textarea is set to the
original value sent from the client:

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc())
{
     $textarea = stripslashes($textarea);
}
$textarea = htmlspecialchars($textarea);

Hope that helps.

Chris

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