note 100353 modified in function.get-magic-quotes-gpc by danbrown

For many people, including myself, the problem is not needing to remove escape characters, but simply to know if they are already in place. In my case, I WANT user input to be properly escaped, but I don't want to do it twice. In cases like this, here's my solution: <?php function conditional_escape ($str) { /* Automatic escaping is highly deprecated, but many sites do it anyway to protect themselves from stupid customers. */ if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { /* Apache automatically escaped the string already. */ return $str; } /* Replace the following line with whatever function you prefer to call to escape a string. */ return mysqli_real_escape_string ($link, $str); } ?> Example: <?php $username = conditional_escape ($_POST['Username']); $password = conditional_escape ($_POST['Password']); $email_address = conditional_escape ($_POST['Email_Address']); ?> Hope this helps. --was-- For many people, including myself, the problem is not needing to remove escape characters, but simply to know if they are already in place. In my case, I WANT user input to be properly escaped, but I don't want to do it twice. In cases like this, here's my solution: function conditional_escape ($str) { /* Automatic escaping is highly deprecated, but many sites do it anyway to protect themselves from stupid customers. */ if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { /* Apache automatically escaped the string already. */ return $str; } /* Replace the following line with whatever function you prefer to call to escape a string. */ return mysqli_real_escape_string ($link, $str); } Example: $username = conditional_escape ($_POST['Username']); $password = conditional_escape ($_POST['Password']); $email_address = conditional_escape ($_POST['Email_Address']); Hope this helps. http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-magic-quotes-gpc.php