Re: newbie - PHP escaping trigger happy

You guys got me on the right track, but: On my Mac OS10.5.4/Apache2/webmin local (dev) setup (of which I know very little) I managed to find "php.ini.default", make a copy while renaming to "php.ini", open the copy (php.ini), and change that "on" to an "off" (the only one of the 3 that was on). So now in that file, here is what I have: ; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data. magic_quotes_gpc = Off ; Magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data from SQL, from exec(), etc. magic_quotes_runtime = Off ; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ' with '' instead of \'). magic_quotes_sybase = Off I go into webmin --> PHP and 'hand-edit' the PHP config file to convince myself that what I did should be recognized by Apache/PHP, and the textarea contents match. Sooooo, WHY is php still escaping my quotes? -Govinda On Sep 2, 2008, at 10:36 AM, seungp@gmail.com wrote:

IIRC. That's covered under magic quotes . You should be able to turn that off via a config switch in php.ini or .htaccess.