Posted by elyob on 09/09/05 14:02

"Oli Filth" <catch@olifilth.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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!
>

Great stuff. Thanks for that, the default php.ini had this. It's now gone. I
seem to remember one of the main PHP developers writing that magic quotes is
stupid and should be dropped.

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