How to remove apostrophes in PHP

[Sean J]

I am having a database created in PHP. Many of the tables in it contains apostrophes. I want to remove that slashes in my result and here lies my problem.

Example: for "I am under the tree."
I get the result: "I'm in l \"

I tried the addslashes but it changes nothing.

<input type='text' name='description4' size='100' value='".addslashes($    
data['description4_information'])."' /> 

[Lemog]

I tried the addslashes but it changes nothing.

<input type='text' name='description4' size='100' value='".addslashes($    
data['description4_information'])."' /> 

Here lies your actual problem. Basically addslashes adds slashes whereas stripslashes removes slashes. So, in short, use stripslashes rather than addslashes.

[Praetor]

You put this:

value="<?php echo $data['description4_information']"' />

or begin with a echo '... value = ".addslashes ($data[' description4_information'])."' /> ', do this:
echo "<input type='text' name='description4' size='100' value=".$data['description4_information'])." />";

[fellah]

<input type='text' name='description4' size='100' value='".addslashes($    
data['description4_information'])."' /> 

This is happening because you are using

value='

When the compiler encounters an apostrophe, it assumes that this is the end of the statement. In short your text get escapes with htmlspecialchars () like apostrophe, slashes, etc. If you don't want to give it any value then better don't use it.