Input Problem!

I'am using these codes to write a submitted text to a .txt file:

$datastring = $data . "</BR>" . "__________________________________________________________" . "</BR>";
  $fo = fopen($et,'a');
  if(!$fo)
  {
    die("Cannot open $et"); 
  }
  if(!fwrite($fo,$datastring))
  {
    die("Cannot write to $et"); 
  }
  fclose($fo);

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But texts like says, "Hmm, this person looks familiar." gets replaced by something like says, / "Hmm, this person looks familiar." / when written to the text file and it appears the same when read through a PHP file to a .html file.

 

if it is always / then " use str_replace() http://us3.php.net/str_replace to replace all /" with "....what's happening is the escape codes for " are being used for some reason.

 

instead of:

echo $contents

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try:

echo stripslashes($contents)

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where is fwrite () ?

 

Sorry, displayed the wrong codes. Edited the topic and fixed the codes.