Posted by Oli Filth on 09/09/05 13:28

elyob said the following on 09/09/2005 11:21:
> Quite a lot of my data has apostrophes in. I'm passing the data using $_POST
> and urlencode. So, for example, Joe's becomes Joe%27s.
>
> On the next page, I urldecode and display the name in the META title. It
> comes out as Joe\'s.
>
> When I pass it once again, it becomes Joe\\\'s.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?

http://www.php.net/manual/security.magicquotes.php

If you can, disable this feature, cos it's really annoying, as you've
just found out!


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Oli

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