Small errors with feedback section

[drf1229]

On my website (http://www.algebrahelper.x10hosting.com) I made a user feedback section where people can place their feedback onto a page of the website. It works like this: The feedback page is a file that gets edited each time a user submits feedback using PHP's fread and fwrite. This works fine, but I just have one problem. Whenever somebody submits a symbol, such as " ' / , etc. it appears with a backslash infront of it. This isn't a huge problem but prohibits users from posting some html tags. How can I stop/fix this? Please tell me if more detail is needed. Thanks!

[kbjradmin]

you should probably look into htmlspecialchars.it turns certain characters into the html entities.

[gomarc]

Try using the php string function stripslashes($str). It will give you a string with backslashes stripped off.

Example #1 A stripslashes() example

<?php
$str = "Is your name O\'reilly?";

// Outputs: Is your name O'reilly?
echo stripslashes($str);
?>

To learn more about stripslashes, go to http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php (example source)

[kbjradmin]

or you could do that, forgot about that one :]

[gomarc]

LOL, kbjradmin suggestion will also work. (Seems we posted almost at same time!)

[misson]

Just make sure you remove unsafe tags, such as <script>, <object>, <link>, <embed>, <style> &c, so your site isn't vulnerable to cross-site scripting.