A PHP library function for un-quoting a quoted string or paraphrased stripping slashes from a string. Questions are about the workings or issues with the stripslashes function.
Un-quotes a quoted string. The function returns a string with backslashes stripped off. (\' becomes ' and so on.) Double backslashes (\) are made into a single backslash ().
Example (from PHP manual)
<?php
$str = "Is your name O\'reilly?";
// Outputs: Is your name O'reilly?
echo stripslashes($str);
?>
Links
![](\"https://www.domain.tld/img.jpg\")
';
echo 'X1: '.$x;
$x = stripslashes($x);
echo 'X2 : '.$x;
The output is
X1: 
