[Phpwm] escape hell!

[alan dunn]

I have an array  $_arr of  41 elements and about 500 rows, including 
apostrophes (and other stuff probably!) in some strings. I need to 
escape the apostrophes and have tried both the following with no success:

$_arr = str_replace(" ' "," \' ",$_arr);

and

foreach ($_arr as $_arr2){
                        foreach ($_arr2 as $var){$var = addslashes($var);}
                    }
can anyone help out?
thanks, alan dunn