RE: [PHP] Why do form submissions need stripslashes() invocations ?
| From: | Jason Murray | Date: | Mon, 10 Sep 2001 01:58:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Why do form submissions need stripslashes() invocations ? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> Like all other PHP config directives you can set it in your
> .htaccess file using:
>
> php_value magic_quotes_gpc off
>
> And you are wrong on the \" part. If magic_quotes_gpc is on and you
> submit a string that contains \" then it will be escaped to \\\" and a
> StripSlashes() will turn it back into \"
Additionally, you can write code that will work under either situation
by querying get_magic_quotes_gpc and get_magic_quotes_runtime to see
which are in effect at any given time.
Jason
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