use stripslashes() to get rid of the escape character.

Escaping is great. In case the value is going to be integer , I would suggest you do it like:

$value = (int) $_POST['some_int_field'];

This would make sure you always end up with a integer value.

use stripslashes() to get rid of the escape character.

Escaping is great. In case the value is going to be integer , I would suggest you do it like:

$value = (int) $_POST['some_int_field'];

This would make sure you always end up with an integer value.