Posted by Chris Shiflett on 10/12/05 17:18

Martin Selway wrote:
> A servername may contain a backslash e.g. Server1\SQL1.
> When this data is returned from the URL e.g. $server =
> $_GET['server']; The name is returned as Server1\\SQL1,
> so the search fails.

Sounds like magic_quotes_gpc is enabled. Disable it.

> I've tried using a regular expression to remove one of
> the backslashes:
> $server = ereg_replace("\\", "\", $server);

There is a function called stripslashes() that does this. Also, you
should not use a regular expression function when matching literal
strings. Regular expressions are for matching patterns. Use something
like str_replace().

Hope that helps.

Chris

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