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Old 10-05-2007, 02:22 PM
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stripslashes for textarea
Hey,

How can I remove slashes that appear after an apostrophe in a textarea that I'm sending as an email?

This is the code for the form:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Trinity Youth Group</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<link href="../../default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
#menu a {
    position:relative;
 }
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<!-- start header -->
<div id="header">
	<div id="logo">
		<h1>Trinity Lutheran Church</h1>
                <h2>Youth Group</h2>
		<p>Milford, CT</p>
	</div>
	<div id="search">
		<form method="get" action="">
			<fieldset>
			<input id="s" type="text" name="s" value="" />
			<input id="x" type="submit" value="Search" />
			</fieldset>
		</form>
	</div>
</div>
<!-- end header -->
<!-- start menu -->
<div id="menu">
	<ul>
		<li><a href="../../index.php">Home</a></li>
		<li><a href="../../about.php">About</a></li>
                <li><a href="../../events.php">Upcoming Events</a></li>
                <li><a href="../../calendar.php">Calendar</a></li>
                <li><a href="../../contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>
	</ul>
</div>
<div id="menu2">
        <ul>
               <li class="current_page_item"><a href="../index.php">Admin Panel</a></li>
        </ul>
</div>
<!-- end menu -->
<!-- start page -->
<div id="page">
	<!-- start content -->
	<div id="content">
		<h1 class="pagetitle">Mass Email</h1>
		<div class="post">
			<?php
// Make a MySQL Connection
mysql_connect("mysql.****.***", "****", "****") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("****") or die(mysql_error());
// Get all the data from the "example" table

echo "<form action=\"massemailsend.php\" method=\"get\">";

$result = mysql_query("SELECT email from
contacts; ")
or die(mysql_error());

echo "<b>Note:</b> Try to NOT use apostrophes.  They will appear with a backslash next to them because of the coding.  I'll let you know when this is fixed.<br><br>";
echo "To:<br>";
echo "<textarea hidden=true name=\"emailfield\" cols=\"50\" rows=\"5\">";

// keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
// Print out the contents of each row into a table
if ($row['email'] != ''){

echo $row['email'];
echo ", ";
}
}

echo "</textarea>";

echo "<br><br>Subject:<br>";
echo "<input name=\"emailsubject\" type=\"text\">";

echo "<br><br>Message:<br>";
echo "<textarea name=\"emailmessage\" cols=\"50\" rows=\"10\"></textarea>";

echo "<br><br>Signature:<br>";
echo "<textarea name=\"emailsignature\" cols=\"50\" rows=\"3\">- Trinity Lutheran Church Youth Group</textarea>";

echo "<br><br><input name=\"Submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Send\">";

echo "</form>";

?>
		</div>
        </div>
	<!-- end content -->
	<!-- start sidebar -->
	<div id="sidebar">
		<ul>
			<li>
				<h2>Event Sign Up</h2>
                                <?php include("../../eventsidebar.php"); ?>
			</li>
			<li>
				<h2>Calendar</h2>
                                <?php include("../../calendarsidebar.php"); ?>
			</li>
		</ul>
	</div>
	<!-- end sidebar -->
	<div style="clear: both;">&nbsp;</div>
</div>
<!-- end page -->
<div id="footer">
	<p>&copy;2007 All Rights Reserved. &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; Design by <a href="http://www.freecsstemplates.org/">Free CSS Templates</a> &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; Icons by <a href="http://www.famfamfam.com/">FAMFAMFAM</a>.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Any thoughts?

Thanks!
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Old 10-05-2007, 02:58 PM
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Stripslashes() didn't work?
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Old 10-05-2007, 03:00 PM
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I don't know how to do it for the textarea.
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Old 10-05-2007, 04:03 PM
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I'm not really sure what you mean. How is it different than any other element?

Can't you just do this?

echo stripslashes($row['email']);

instead of this?

echo $row['email'];
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Old 10-07-2007, 09:15 AM
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For the textarea where I type the message. I don't know how to apply stipslashes to the line
Code:
echo "<textarea name=\"emailmessage\" cols=\"50\" rows=\"10\"></textarea>";
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You're being really unclear.

What is the problem? That the e-mail is coming through with slashes in it? Or that the textarea itself contains slashes when editing content?

If slashes are coming through in the e-mail, you need to just use stripslashes() on the content of the e-mail before you send it.

But again, I don't see what the difference is between a textarea or any other form element in that case.

If you can, please explain better what is going on.
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Old 10-07-2007, 11:47 AM
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ok, sorry. The email when it comes contains slashes after apostrophes that were typed in the "message" text box from the page.

For instance:

Code:
It's a test
would appear as

Code:
It\'s a test
in the email

My question is how do I apply the stripslashes to anything that is typed into the text box so that won't happen?

Thanks.
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Right.. so when you put your content into the PHP mail() function or hopefully a different, more secure mail function, you need to put stripslashes() on the content of the email.

This would be something that happens in your form processing script.

Where is massemailsend.php?
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Old 10-07-2007, 01:42 PM
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In the same directory.

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<!--
Design by Free CSS Templates
http://www.freecsstemplates.org
Released for free under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License

Name       : Extended
Description: A two-column, fixed-width, Web 2.0 design.
Version    : 1.0
Released   : 20070915

-->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Trinity Youth Group</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="1;url=http://www.trinityyouthmilford.org/admin/index.php">
<link href="../../default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
#menu a {
    position:relative;
 }
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<!-- start header -->
<div id="header">
	<div id="logo">
		<h1>Trinity Lutheran Church</h1>
                <h2>Youth Group</h2>
		<p>Milford, CT</p>
	</div>
	<div id="search">
		<form method="get" action="">
			<fieldset>
			<input id="s" type="text" name="s" value="" />
			<input id="x" type="submit" value="Search" />
			</fieldset>
		</form>
	</div>
</div>
<!-- end header -->
<!-- start menu -->
<div id="menu">
	<ul>
		<li><a href="../../index.php">Home</a></li>
		<li><a href="../../about.php">About</a></li>
                <li><a href="../../events.php">Upcoming Events</a></li>
                <li><a href="../../calendar.php">Calendar</a></li>
                <li><a href="../../contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>
	</ul>
</div>
<div id="menu2">
        <ul>
               <li class="current_page_item"><a href="../index.php">Admin Panel</a></li>
        </ul>
</div>
<!-- end menu -->
<!-- start page -->
<div id="page">
	<!-- start content -->
	<div id="content">
		<h1 class="pagetitle">Mass Email</h1>
		<div class="post">
			<?php

echo "<i>To: $emailfield <br><br>Subject: $emailsubject <br><br>Message: <br>$messagescript</i>";
echo "<br><br><br><strong>Email Sent!</strong><br><br><strong>You are now being redirected</strong>";

$toscript = "$emailfield";

$subjectscript = "$emailsubject" ;

$messagescript = "$emailmessage \n \n $emailsignature";

$fromscript = "From: directors@trinityyouthmilford.org";

if ($toscript != "")
mail($toscript, $subjectscript, $messagescript, $fromscript);

?>
		</div>
        </div>
	<!-- end content -->
	<!-- start sidebar -->
	<div id="sidebar">
		<ul>
			<li>
				<h2>Event Sign Up</h2>
                                <?php include("../../eventsidebar.php"); ?>
			</li>
			<li>
				<h2>Calendar</h2>
                                <?php include("../../calendarsidebar.php"); ?>
			</li>
		</ul>
	</div>
	<!-- end sidebar -->
	<div style="clear: both;">&nbsp;</div>
</div>
<!-- end page -->
<div id="footer">
	<p>&copy;2007 All Rights Reserved. &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; Design by <a href="http://www.freecsstemplates.org/">Free CSS Templates</a> &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; Icons by <a href="http://www.famfamfam.com/">FAMFAMFAM</a>.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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mail($toscript, $subjectscript, stripslashes($messagescript), $fromscript); 
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Originally Posted by pwydra View Post
For the textarea where I type the message. I don't know how to apply stipslashes to the line
Code:
echo "<textarea name=\"emailmessage\" cols=\"50\" rows=\"10\"></textarea>";
There's the confusion - you don't apply the function to the textarea line. As @Billy showed, you apply the function to the textarea object itself.
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Thank you all very much!
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