PHP post is appending extra " \" " Why is it so?

I am using

  <textarea id="content" name="content" style="开发者_JS百科width:0; height:0;">  
<?php  $content = file_get_contents($url);    ?> 
</textarea>

and i am posting this text area to a php file

$file = $_POST["content"];
echo $file;

The output that i am getting displayed Everything with an extra \"

All the images , all the references... Any solution for this ?

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For a start, the code in the textarea won't actually output anything, since all it's doing is assigning the contents of $url to the $content variable. Try using echo to output it:

<?php echo file_get_contents($url) ?>

As for the slashes, it sounds like a magic quotes problem. You can easily check this in the course of a script by calling get_magic_quotes_gpc, which will return true if the feature is enabled. The PHP website has some useful information on how to disable it.

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Check if you have magic quotes activated.

You can check this, either in your configuration-files, or by viewing the output of php_info(). Here are instructions on how to disable this "feature".