Posted by Pedro Graca on 01/11/06 03:17

a wrote:
> I have a php script that gets the text from a form field:
<snip>
> The text comes back fine, just some characters (', " and \) are now escaped
> (\', \" and \\).
[...]
> I'd like first to understand why this is happening
> and if there is a way to disable this behavior

magic_quotes_gpc

see http://www.php.net/get_magic_quotes_gpc

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