Posted by Kimmo Laine on 06/12/06 12:46

"wylbur37" <wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> When using a form with an input textbox such as the following ...
>
> <input type="text" name="field1" size=30>
>
> I discovered that when a backslash (\) is typed into the textbox,
> when I later check the value (in $field1), I get *two* backslashes.
> For example, If I type ...
>
> c:\abc\xyz
>
> the $field1 variable will then have a value of ...
>
> c:\\abc\\xyz
>
> Why does this happen?


Read These From Manual:

http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php
When on, all ' (single-quote), " (double quote), \ (backslash) and NULL
characters are escaped with a backslash automatically.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php
Returns a string with backslashes stripped off. (\' becomes ' and so on.)
Double backslashes (\\) are made into a single backslash (\).

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