# PHP question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-question/58072>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 19, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-question/58072 "2004-07-19T16:01:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Kajinku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/94ad74/32.png) [@Kajinku](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kajinku)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-question/58072/1 "2004-07-19T16:01:02Z")

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This is probably a simple question for a PHP guru, but I couldn’t find the answer to my question using Google.

Anyways, here’s the deal:

The idea is that the user can modify the pages of his flash-site using a very simple PHP thingy I made. His flash website imports HTML from TXT-files.  
The problem I’m having is that PHP adds backslashes here and there in the HTML code, which flash cannot read. So now, I’m trying to _remove_ all the backslashes from the string before updating the TXT-file.

```auto
str_replace("\","",$string);

```

^ That didn’t work. Any ideas? Pretty please? 🙂

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-question/58072/2 "2004-07-19T16:02:36Z")

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Try using  
stripslashes($yourVariableOrString);

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-question/58072/3 "2004-07-19T16:12:58Z")

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That works fine! Thanks! :thumb:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-question/58072/4 "2004-07-19T16:17:24Z")

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No problem 🙂