Apostrophe problem (not same as March apostrophe fix)

[pablo]

Hi,

On my board, apostrophes get turned into \' when they are put into

• news
• message body
• message subjects
• the "I'm a llama" text on the profile screen
• Name, where it appears as "Hey Mr D'Arcy, you have 0 messages" on, say the Message Display screen (action=display)
• ...and maybe I've missed a few more

but it appears just fine on

• Name in the profile window,
• Name in message sender (to the left of a message)
• Name, where it appears as "Hey Mr D'Arcy, you have 0 messages" on, say the Profile screen

I have seen the previous threads on the apostrophe fix and this doesn't look like the same thing. Also the apostrophe fix zip file is older than the 1.3.1 files, so I don't want to overwrite.

I'm happy to make manual changes if you can give me a generic line of code to make the change and tell me where they need to go.

Thanks,
Paul.

[Jeff Lewis]

You'll need to add one function to those variables:

stripslashes($variable);

That will take the \ out everywhere.

[pablo]

Jeff, you are a star!
Where do I put the stripslashes function? And does it need to go several places in several files?
Paul.

[Jeff Lewis]

Well you'd need it in a few places like you mention.

So once before outputting the news items (Subs.php), once before outputting the profile text (Profile.php and Display.php), message subjects (Display.php and MessageIndex.php) etc...

[pablo]

Bizarre

Jeff,
Does this make sense?

I just did a global find and replace, changing all instances of mysql_ to @mysql_ (as per my other post). Since then, the apostrophe problem has disappeared. And I haven't put in a single stripslashes($vbl) yet!!!

Confused but obviously delighted.

Paul.

[Jeff Lewis]

I guess...could be a setting in php.ini like I said before, perhaps you could post a link to your phpinfo?