Removing \ from Saved Data

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I am saving some text to a setting field for use in an email template.

So the text that is being put into the textarea to save looks like this…

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<p>some text <a href="http://www.website.com">[HERE]</a></p>

and after saving it looks like this…. 

<p>some text <a href="http://www.website.com">[HERE]</a></p>

So what do I need to do to make it remove the \ when I need to work with this data?

UPDATE

I am saving the option/setting with this… 

update_option('contact_record_client_template', $post_client_template);

So when I retrieve it with 

$client_template = get_option('contact_record_client_template');

I just need to remove the ///‘s

If I run stripslashes() on it, it removes 2 of the 3 /‘s so it still leaves 1.

I also tried using str_replace( '///', '', $value ); but it just seems to add more or do nothing

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  1. You can change the " signs to &quot; automatically using PHP’s htmlspecialchars() prior to your update_option() call: 

    $post_client_template = htmlspecialchars( $post_client_template );
update_option( 'contact_record_client_template', $post_client_template);

    If you need to change ' characters as well, use this:

    $post_client_template = htmlspecialchars( $post_client_template, ENT_QUOTES );
update_option( 'contact_record_client_template', $post_client_template);

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