Re: Why are slashes automatically stripped from db result?

It's been my experience that there is no need for calling stripslashes when pulling the data out of the database. This is probably an effect of having magic_quotes_runtime off. Mike Martin Towell wrote:

maybe mysql is stripping the slashes and not php ?? -----Original Message----- From: Steve Cayford [mailto:steve_cayford@unioncab.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:57 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Why are slashes automatically stripped from db result? Hey all. I'm storing some jpeg images in a mysql database using the PEAR classes. Before inserting the image into the db I call addslashes() on the data, I was, accordingly, calling stripslashes() on the data after pulling the image back out of the database, but the image was getting mangled. I finally realized that the slashes were already stripped from my query results so stripping them again was removing legitimate slashes. The question is: why are the slashes already stripped out of the db results? I call set_magic_quotes_runtime(0) at the beginning of the scripts to turn off magic quoting. What else would cause this? Thanks for any suggestions. -Steve