Automatic addslashes() to querystrings?

[Anon]

Hey well i was testing some things out with querystrings and if i enter different types of characters here is my code:

<-----code----->
<?
echo $HTTP_GET_VARS['query'];
?>
<-----end of code----->

ok when i go to this url:

http://sitename/script.php?query=help'''

it echos:

help\'\'\'

could someone please explain why it does automatic parsing

[Anon]

woops sorry i didnt tell you the problem:
the problem is that with characters that need backslashes to be printed to the page, php automattically addslashes to them and i dont know how to get rid of it.

[jc94062]

stripslashes might do it, still not sure what your trying to do though!

[Anon]

thanx but i would like to know why its doing it.

[jc94062]

Could be a server setting by your hosters at a guess?

If you want to give me the full code I can try it on my site. Its probably only a hoster problem on a free PHP site though, if your paying for it, I can't think of any reason why they'd do it.