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Posted by Allen on 06/14/48 11:39
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:10:53 -0500, <pihkal23> wrote:
> [snip] the apostrophe has a backslash before it. We have run into other
> issues with the use of various punctuation marks in the text fields of
> the back end of the site and have always been told by the developers
> that it is a fault of PHP and is common with PHP text fields.
It is common for fledgling would-be php developers to struggle with
escaped quotes/apostrophes in their output -- this is a problem of
incompetence with php, not an incompetence -of- php ;)
> [snip] I am growing increasingly suspicious of the level of competence
> of the developers and feel that they are making excuses for their
> inability. Can anyone tell me, from what I've said here, whether my
> suspicions are justified or is it the case that PHP is limited in these
> areas?
Again, php isn't limited in these areas. There's an option in php.ini,
magic_quotes_gpc, that automatically escapes things when enabled and can
be a bit confusing if you don't know it's happening -- but this can be
turned off if you have access to php.ini or worked around if you're a
developer without access to php.ini. Tell them to run a google search for
magic_quotes_gpc and a search of php.net for 'stripslashes'.
You're justified in questioning their competence -- they sound pretty lost
to me. They're either making up excuses for their inability or they're
foolish enough people to use a scripting language they believe is
incapable of outputting clean text -- either way, it says little for them
by way of competence ;)
Allen
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