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earlier from my webmail but it doesn't seem to have worked.

Al wrote:
> Just use stripslashes() on your submitted data and forget about
> testing for magic_quotes. It's good practice anyhow. \" is not legit
> text regardless.
>

Using stripslashes() on all submitted data is most certainly *not* good
practice. If magic_quotes_gpc is later turned off or you're using one of
the versions of PHP with buggy magic_quotes_gpc support then you can
easily lose data. Reversing the effects of magic_quotes_gpc is far from
trivial, there's lots of potential for subtle bugs, let alone completely
forgetting about $_.

See my earlier reply for a real solution.

Arpad