\ being added when uploading a link to db via form

[Janis]

Hope you can help me with this. On one of the fields in my add product page, I have the advertisers link to his product. It basically is a link and a button direct the customer to that link.This is what I uploaded in the field:\[code\]<a target='_blank' href='http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=3qM*AG8K6Qo&offerid=146141.3706263&type=2&subid=0'><img border="0" src='http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7471572/style/buynowbutton.png' width='138' height='20'><a/>\[/code\]and this is what ends up in the db:\[code\]<a target=\'_blank\' href=http://stackoverflow.com/'http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=3qM*AG8K6Qo&offerid=146141.3706263&type=2&subid=0\'><img border=\"0\" src=http://stackoverflow.com/'style/buynowbutton.png\' width=\'138\' height=\'20\'><a/>\[/code\]How can I stop this from happening?Any help would be greatly appreciated