The amazing escaped single-quote

Say you have a form with a textarea. Say you type something with single-quotes (e.g. I'm happy so I'm sad) in the textarea. When the textarea is POSTed to a PHP program, are they escaped with the backslash?

I ran it on two different servers and one did and one didn't. Why is this? Is there some setting somewhere? Or is this a version diff thing?

Here is the PHP code (I changed all angle brackets to square ones so it'll appear):

[html]
[form method="post"]
[textarea name="sometext" wrap="virtual" cols=55 rows=4][/textarea]
[input type="submit" value="Save"]
[/form]
[?php
echo "Just received: $sometext -- are the single quotes escaped?[p]";
?]
[/html]

Thanks for any help!

put $sometext in a stripslashes() function. eg;

<?php printf("Just received: %s -- are the single quotes escaped?",stripslashes($sometext));?>


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One of the servers probably had magic quotes switched on while the other didn't.

Basil