help with funky backslash problem

  • Ok…at the bottom of this site https://manymutts.com in the client testimonial area you will see that there are backslashes appearing before the quotes. I can’t seem to understand what is causing that.

    That area of text is controlled by a theme function page. That section is as follows to have a editable content area: 

    <tr>
			<th><label for="blurb5_enable">Display Fourth Homepage Blurb (Testimonials Quote)</label></th>
			<td>
				<select name="blurb5_enable" id="blurb5_enable">
					<option value="yes" <?php if(get_option('boldy_blurb5_enable') == 'yes'){?>selected="selected"<?php }?>>Yes</option>
					<option value="no" <?php if(get_option('boldy_blurb5_enable') == 'no'){?>selected="selected"<?php }?>>No</option>
				</select><br />
                <em>If "Yes" is selected and text field is empty, the blurb wont appear</em>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<tr valign="top">
			<th scope="row"><label for="blurb5_text">Blurb Text</label></th>
			<td>
				<textarea name="blurb5_text" id="blurb5_text" rows="3" cols="70" style="font-size:11px;"><?php echo stripslashes(get_option('boldy_blurb5_text')); ?></textarea>
			</td>
		</tr>

    The home page that receives the input is as follows:

    <?php if(get_option('boldy_blurb5_enable')=="yes" && get_option('boldy_blurb5_text')!=""){ ?>
	   <div id="blurb5">
		<div id="innerBlurb5">
			<p>
				<?php
			if(get_option('boldy_blurb5_page')!=""){
				echo get_permalink(get_option('boldy_blurb5_page'));
				}elseif(get_option('boldy_blurb5_link')!=""){
				echo get_option('boldy_blurb5_link');
			} ?>

			<?php echo get_option('boldy_blurb5_text'); ?>
			</p>
		</div><!--END OF INNER BLURB5 -->
	   </div><!-- END OF BLURB5 -->

	   <?php }?><!-- END FIFTH BLURB -->

    Any suggestions??

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  • I don’t see anything as you say. Clear cache and check again.

    That’s standard PHP escaping for database values. What you need ot do is use strip_slashes() to remove the slashes.

    echo strip_slashes (get_option('boldy_blurb5_link'));

    Thread Starter dmd54

    (@dmd54)

    Yeah, I’m still relatively new to PHP but the only documentation I found was from 2009.

    Are you sure it’s strip_slashes and not stripslahes?

    Thread Starter dmd54

    (@dmd54)

    Cool…appears to work with stripslashes, the underscore returned a fatal error.

    thanks for the help.

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