Posted by Drakazz on 05/09/06 08:46

What about removing the backslashes from _GET/_POST/_COOKIE/_REQUEST
and making it a real raw variable instead of "cleaning" it.
Only "clean" things when they are in an SQL query, and you do
addslashes() with the variable. This saves you time and the magic
quotes are unessecarily in the first place (where people don't know how
to protect self from SQL injection)...

Take this for a good example:
http://de2.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php#60786
Initialize it at the start and then work with that. I am aware of the
"double" usage but I am also aware that you sometimes can get beaten by
the magic quotes ;] (so do it now, not later!)

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