Remove backslash in php w/ apostrophe

PHP
1

Hey Guys,

I’ve tried everything, but anytime use an apostrophe in our subject or message, php adds a \. How can I remove it? Here is the code:

<?php
    $subject = $_POST['subject'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    $email_list = $_POST['emailsaddresses'];
    $emails = explode(",",$email_list);

if ($email_list=="") {
echo "No Email Addresses Provided!";

}
else
{

    foreach($emails as $email)
    {
        echo 'Now sending a message to '.$email.'<br />';
        if(!mail("$email", "$subject", "$message", "From: me@me.com", "-fme@me.com"))
        {
            echo 'Error when sending to '.$email.'<br />';
        }
    }
}
?>

Also, is there a limitation on how emails we can send before it times out? We have about 250-300 emails to send a month (these are paid subscribers). Is there a way to prevent it from timing out?

Any help is greately appreciated!

2

stripslashes() will strip the slashes…


$subject = stripslashes($_POST['subject']);
$message = stripslashes($_POST['message']);

to avoid time out use set_time_limit(0) at the top of the script
allow me to do some code optimizations:


<?php
set_time_limit(0);

    $subject = stripslashes($_POST['subject']);
    $message = stripslashes($_POST['message']);
    $email_list = $_POST['emailsaddresses'];
    $emails = explode(',',$email_list);

if (empty($email_list))
   echo 'No Email Addresses Provided!';
else
{
    foreach($emails as $email)
    {
        echo 'Now sending a message to ', $email, '<br />';
        if(!mail($email, $subject, $message, 'From: me@me.com', '-fme@me.com'))
        {
            echo 'Error when sending to ', $email, '<br />';
        }
    }
}
?>
3

1. to remove slashes use stripslashes() or str_replace(‘\\’,‘’,$string)
2. the timeout is because of your script execution timing out, add set_time_limit() within the loop before making a call to teh mail() func

4

stripslashes! Ahh dang!

Thanks so much. Works like a charm!