How to have apostrophes in PHP string?

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Part of my PHP code includes the construction of a URL string as follows:

$msg = $_REQUEST["msg"];
$content =  'action=sendmsg'. 
                '&user='.rawurlencode($username). 
                '&password='.rawurlencode($password). 
                '&to='.rawurlencode($destination). 
                '&text='.rawurlencode($msg);

When $msg happens to contain an apostrophe, it get sent as "\'".

What do I need to do to make sure the backslash is not inserted by PHP?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 11 '13 at 04:07

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You probably want to check out stripslashes: http://php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

answered Mar 11 '13 at 04:07

Eli White

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Raptor · Answer 2 · 2013-03-11T04:26:41.327

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Assume you want to send the $content variable instead of just stripping the backslashes, Consider to use urlencode() instead of rawurlencode(). Also, you can use the function once for your $content variable.

$content = urlencode($content);

UPDATE: both urlencode and rawurlencode may not fit your case. Why don't you just send out the $content without URL encode? How do you send our the query string? If you are using cURL, you do not need to encode the parameters.

edited Mar 11 '13 at 04:26

answered Mar 11 '13 at 04:09

Raptor

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What is the difference between `urlencode()` and `rawurlencode()`? – CJ7 Mar 11 '13 at 04:21
Check this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/996139/php-urlencode-vs-rawurlencode – Raptor Mar 11 '13 at 04:25
update the answer. just curious how you use the query string. – Raptor Mar 11 '13 at 04:27

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 11 '13 at 05:43

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You can try

Stipslashes
or put the string in "" and add ' where you want.

answered Mar 11 '13 at 05:43

How to have apostrophes in PHP string?

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