-- Posted by Mediocre at 6:08 pm on Aug. 10, 2008 Edit: Fixed with http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php I'm using fread to insert the contents of a given file into a textarea. Like this: Code: $handle = fopen($filename, "r"); $contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));   echo "".$contents." The problem is that when I submit textarea, php sends it with backslashes before any quotation marks in $content. and escapes other backslashes, etc. For example, Code: echo " becomes Code: echo \" I need to keep baskslashes etc. from the original file, and not send the new ones. How do I do this?