Posted by Eric on 02/27/06 23:34

Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:11:07 GMT, egusenet@verizon.net (Eric) wrote:
>
> >However, when I run this form on my webhost, I enter:
> > we'll
> >in the textarea and when I submit the form, I get:
> > we\'ll
> >
> >Somehow a slash was added before the tick mark. Is this some
> >configuration option? Does it have to do with how PHP is configured on
> >the webhost? Does it have something to do with how Apache is configured
> >on the webhost? Any idea how the slash got there?
>
> It's the misguided PHP configuration option "magic_quotes_gpc".
>
> http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php
>
> This should be Off. Sounds like it's On on your webhost.
>
> If you have permissions, you may be able to disable it in a .htaccess file.
>
> Otherwise you'll have to mess around checking whether it's on or off, and if
> it's on, use stripslashes() on the data, which is fairly ridiculous.

Thank you. This was driving me nuts.

Unfortunately, my webhost is rather clueless (I'm switching soon) and
likely won't be interested in modifying their configuration.

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