Posted by Mazin07 on 10/10/34 11:27

O'Hara wrote:
> O'Hara wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>Some characters entered in the text fields of a form get an escape
>>character. What is the reason? How can I prevent/remove this?
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> Problem solved.
> I needed to turn off magic_quotes_gpc in /etc/php.ini
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> magic_quotes_gpc = Off
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> Sorry if this was a VFAQ.
> As for the usefulness of these magic quotes...
>

In addition, there's a function specifically for slashes:

StripSlashes( string str )
AddSlashes( string str )

Will add/remove the escape slashes

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