Dealing with forms in PHP has always given me major headaches. Primarily formatting; handling punctuation inside a form input, manipulating strings for database insertions, stripping when retrieving from database, etc.
Is there an easy alternative to strip_slashes and all that junk? I don't want a tool like a form wizard that does everything for you - I still would like a high level of customization. What would be nice though is a tool that says "I want this text field to connect to this database field.", then it handles all that tedious work.