I'm trying to pass the textfields values to php

Err it's passing them alright now, but something gets wrong with the concatenations:

$query = "INSERT INTO taff (spec, continent, country, type, name, date, value1, descr, value2, 
value3, value4, notes, dopl) VALUES ( 
   '".$spec."',   
   '".$continent."', 
   '".$country."', 
   '".$type."', 
   '".$name."', 
   '".$date."',
   '".$value1."', 
   '".$descr."', 
   '.$value2.', 
   '.$value3.',    
   '.$value4.', 
   '.$notes.', 
   '.$dopl.');";

Gets printed to me as:

INSERT INTO taff (spec, continent, country, type, name, date, value1, descr, value2,
value3, value4, notes, dopl) VALUES ( '1', 'taff', 'taff', 'taff', 'taff', 'taff', 'taff', '

ggg
', '.

ggg
.', '.123.', '.

ggg
.', '.

ggg
.', '.

ggg
.');

By running the query by hand in mysql, it seems that the \r returns are messing things up:

mysql> INSERT INTO excursion (spec, con
es, price, notinc, notes, dopl) VALUES
 '
    '>
    '> ggg
    '> ', '
    '>
    '> ggg
    '> ', 123, '
    '>
    '> ggg
    '> ', '
    '>
    '> ggg
    '> ', '
    '>
    '> ggg
    '> ');

the ' shouldn't be in front of the > prompt sign, should it? What do I do to get rid of these returns?