built-in stripslashes dosn't always work

[Anon]

Hey people -- anyone here know anything about how PHP automatically adds and strips slashes with inserting or selecting from a database? Typically this works fine and dandy for me. However, recently, I started seeing this randomly NOT work. This is really effecting me as I have images stored in my (mysql) database, along with lots of text too. Now as I go through the site, from time to time I will see a block of text where all the 's are \'s or sometimes \' or \\'. The major problem is that this is causing randomly broken images. As the images is pulled from the database and the slashes are not stripped out the break... which is bad.

Anyone have any input on this? I'd even be happy to manually shut this off and manually do it. Is there a global variable to control this at all?

Even the slightest amount of input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Doug Hughes

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First, in programming languages practically nothing is random.
Most likely your program has either one addslashes() too many or on stripslashes() too few.
It's annyoing, but you'll have to check them all.

[Anon]

See, that's the problem. I havn't used ANY. REALLY!
here's some code that pulls an image from mysql and outputs it.

It tends to work, but sometimes it dosn't...

<?
//This script pulls banners from the database and outputs them

//add includes
include ("config.php");
include ("connect.php");

$query = "
	SELECT bannerImg, bannerImgType
	FROM BannerAds
	WHERE UIN = '$UIN'
";

$return = mysql_query($query, $db);
$data          = mysql_result($return, 0, 0);
$bannerImgType = mysql_result($return, 0, 1);
header ("Content-type: $bannerImgType");
echo $data;

?>

[Anon]

Same Problem