How can PHP prevent adding slashes before special characters when writing to a text file from a form input?

When writing form input to a text file in PHP, special characters may be escaped with slashes by default. To prevent this behavior, you can use the stripslashes() function to remove the slashes before writing the input to the file. 

// Get the form input data
$inputData = $_POST['input_data'];

// Remove slashes from the input data
$cleanData = stripslashes($inputData);

// Open the file in write mode
$file = fopen("data.txt", "w");

// Write the clean data to the file
fwrite($file, $cleanData);

// Close the file
fclose($file);

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