MySQL Output Help

[Tommy Blax]

I'm very new to MySQL so forgive me if I haven't explained myself properly or if this is the wrong place to post.

Okay well, i'm making a small project which involves somebody answering a few questions in textareas, and the answers are stored in MySQL. The Text output appears fine, but when I either put in a ' or a " it adds 3 backslashses before it. So for example:

My Input = Hello, I'm A Turtle
The Output = Hello, I\\\'m A Turtle

It's quite irritating when you end up putting a lot of 's and "s in :P. Is there any way I can fix this?

(( it also appears as \\\' in the MySQL row on phpMyAdmin, and the row for the answer is Text Type, Collaboration is latin1_general_ci and there is no null ))

I'd really appreciate some help, thank you.