Re: Hidden Input and Quotes?
| From: | Christian Reiniger | Date: | Sat, 12 May 2001 09:10:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Hidden Input and Quotes? | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Saturday 12 May 2001 04:20, Young Chi-Yeung Fan wrote:
> If you have <input type="hidden" name="data" value="The word
> "here" is in quotes." />, then when you submit your form,
> $HTTP_POST_VARS["data"] or $HTTP_GET_VARS["data"] will be:
>
> The word \"here\" is in quotes.
>
> So you can put the value straight into MySQL. The slashes will not show
> up in MySQL. The browser converted the " into ", and PHP for some
> reason (I still don't know why) adds slashes before your ' and "
The reason is that in your php.ini there is an entry
magic_quotes_gpc = on
set this to 'off' and the slashes are gone.
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Christian Reiniger
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