Re: PHP Corrupts URLs

Hi Nathan, Friday, June 8, 2007, 9:47:22 PM, you wrote: > I have a php script that gets a url from a GET query parameter. I have > been running this script on PHP 5.2.2 on Ubuntu Linux, and everything > works as expected. I have just installed PHP 5.2.3 on OS X via > MacPorts, and the same query parameter url has any single quote > characters escaped with a backslash when I retrieve it from $_REQUEST. [snip] > As you can see, in OS X the url acquires a the backslashes, which I > would like to avoid. > I am not much of a PHP programmer at this point--it is a brand new > language for me, so I don't really now how to investigate this. Is > there a PHP configuration option I can look at? Sure.. look at the magic_quotes_gpc setting: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk "Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window"