Posted by Chung Leong on 03/30/06 18:34

flconseil@yahoo.fr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The PHP documentation contains a user note which says that opening a
> file in binary mode ('b' flag) replaces the need to set
> magic_quotes_runtime to off before every read and writes.
>
> As it seems not to correspond to the rest of the documentation (I
> thought that the 'b' mode was used only for Windows end of lines), can
> somebody please tell me if it is right or wrong ?
>
> I am developping a library which needs to read binary data from files
> and, as I have to deal with a possible setting of magic_quotes_runtime
> to on, it would make it much simpler if it could be specified at
> fopen() time.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> François

Opening a file with 'b' does not suppress magic_quotes_runtime. If it
is turned on, then file(), fread(), file_get_contents(), and others
will add slashes to their results.

Do people really use magic_quotes_runtime?

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