mysql_real_escape_string() leaving slashes in MySQL

Question

I just moved to a new hosting company and now whenever a string gets escaped using:

mysql_real_escape_string($str);

the slashes remain in the

Answer 1

I am not sure if I understand the issue correctly but I had a very same problem. No matter what I did the slashes were there when the string got escaped. Since I needed the inserted value to be in the exact same format as it was entered I used

htmlentities($inserted_value)

this will leave all inserted quote marks unescaped but harmless.