Re: Escaping Escape Characters

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Ben Ocean wrote: > Hi; > I have a script that, on another (presumably older) version of PHP3 > required that I escape the single quote character. I've transferred the > account to my own server and now I have all sorts of nasty single quotes > appearing with the escape character in front of them, like this: > She\'s > Denmark\'s > etc. Is there an easy way of correcting this? > TIA, > BenO The easy way is to make sure your new php.ini (php4) files has the same setting as your old php3.ini (php3). You need to look for this: magic_quotes_gpc = Off ;;; COMMENT;;; or On Otherwise, if you don't have access to your php.ini files, the you can rely on a combination of: http://www.php.net/manual/function.set-magic-quotes-runtime.php ------------------------ and http://www.php.net/manual/function.get-magic-quotes-runtime.php ------------------------ and http://www.php.net/manual/function.get-magic-quotes-gpc.php -------------------- Hope this helps, :) -jeremy brand _______________________________________________________________________ GnuPG Fingerprint: 9F5E 95E0 1CC2 E054 84EA 6099 8ACD 9DBA D2C0 5EA9 _ http://www.jeremybrand.com/jeremy/brand/jeremy_brand.html for more __