EDIT: Hahaha, after I posted this, I went back to edit it and it took out all my backslashes. Irony?
strip_slashes():
Its a php command used in input. A code is used to put a \ [backslash] before the " [quotation] in posts, cause they're stored in a variable before being inserted into the database.
$data = "load image "media/blahblah.bmp",1";
will screw up the variable. if theres a \ [backslash] in there, it tells php to ignore the quote following it. A code is added that transforms that into:
$data = "load image \"media/blahblah.bmp\",1";
And all is good. its stored like that.
When its retreived from the database, they use strip_slashes().
strip_slashes($data);
that takes out the \ [backslashes] that where added in to keep it from screwing it up, and it most likely took out your / [slashes] in the code in the process.
EDITED: 7/18/04, to fix some grammar, spelling, and explaination...pretty much to make me sound more literate and knowledgeable.