Posted by luiheidsgoeroe on 10/29/07 11:05

On Oct 29, 11:58 am, "Gotch@" <dario...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Correction about previous]
>
> Hi. I found a strange behaviour I cannot explain with the ' char. I do
> the following:
>
> 1) there is a string with ' inside.
> 2) I encode the string with urlencode, I put it in a $_GET['arg']
> variable
> 3) in the next page (pointed by the link that included the arg param),
> I do $str=urldecode($_GET['arg'])
>
> .. then ' comes out as \' ! (?)
>
> Why? In the url arg contains %27 instead of ' ... The thing happens
> *even if* I don't use urldecode :O :|
>
> I think there is some processing done by _GET handling but I can't
> find anything about this... Plese help :)

magic_qoutes_gpc, disable it, or it you can't, use this:

$arg = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($_GET['arg']) :
$_GET['arg'];

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