how do i get rid of those backslashes?

i'm pretty new to php (started last night URL but i have experience with perl, asp, c, java, name it..
so i started coding a php guestbook (not really useful, but good to start learning). so i found out how to write to files and stuff, BUT (!!) whenever i write a string to a file that contains a " or a ' it writes that, but with a (backslash) before it. i tried using set_magic_quotes_runtime but it didn't seem to work, it's really kinda annoying.
anyone knows how to get rid of this?
thanks

Use stripsplashes() on the string before you write it to the file:

$string = stripslashes($string);

adam

i knew it wouldn't be hard URL

-thanks