note 69187 rejected from security.magicquotes by bjori

Note Submitter: rn214 at cam dot ac dot uk ---- In my view, removing the magic_quotes feature is a big mistake. For anything involving a database, it is not only time-saving, but also guarantees failsafe behaviour. - With magic_quotes on, forgetting to call stripslashes causes, at worst, an ugly backslash in the middle of some text. - With magic_quotes off, forgetting to call addslashes causes, at worst, a database compromise. I know which I'd rather deal with! So, since it is going away, how do we code-around it? Is there a simple way to re-implement the feature?