Re: Magic quotes good or Bad?

tedd wrote:

I do it by placing a text file at root named ".htaccess" with the following php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 php_value magic_quotes_sybase 0 php_value magic_quotes_runtime 0 Only works if your web server allows you to do this. In Apache the controlling option for this is:

<Directory /path/to/www> AllowOverride All </Directory> You should note in a virtual hosting environment, this is typically disabled. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride Regards, Peter Hoskin