"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
news:3A847707.906DC82F@faricy.net...
> I couldn't run PHP because it wasn't installed and I couldn't run Perl
> because I had to compile it first. Ack. Well that's been addressed. So
> now I made a PHP guestbook (faricy.net installed PHP 4.04).
> http://davidf.faricy.net/guestbook/guestbook.php
>
> The problem is any "special" characters, quotes, apostraphes,
> backslashes, get a backslash stuck in front of them by the script. So I
> try to test sign my guestbook and I get
>
> Don\'t just read it, <a href=\"signbook.php\">sign</a> it!
>
> Ugly and destroys HTML. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
>
>
> Also, when I enter my URL i get a directory listing instead of
> index.html. I have told Ryan Faricy about this problem. (It's a server
> problem, right?)
>

You should find an option for "allow html" in the script or similiar.

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