magic_quotes_gpc: can you turn it off!

baseline

Okay, after much huffing and puffing I dicover this nifty little option called "magic_quotes_gpc" in the configuration file. Damn I hate this thing. All this time I'm trying to track down what kept sticking these bloody slashes in my data when lo and behold, PHP did it automatically.

I know now I can stop this by modifying the config file, but can you change this option on the fly and not just in the php.ini file? The PHP docs didn't really say anything about it (at least, I couldn't find it) but I thought I'd ask.

Thanks again,
baseline

frigidman

Kind of difficult to change it on the fly, because php has already done its damage before it executes the php script.

You can change it per apache virtualhost though... ? heh?

yelvington

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc())
$foo = stripslashes($foo);

baseline

The catch is that the server has other php pages which 'take advantage' of this. I just don't like it because I move the data around a bit before it gets stuffed into a database. However, they can't change the setting in the config as it would screw up all the other ones.

I found the stripslashes, but it's a little tedius to have to do it for each variable.

Are the $GET and $POST arrays read-write or read only? Would I be able to use a foreach to do a global fix before accessing the elements? I guess I'll have to try it.

Thank you both for the response. This place is much more tolerant than other programming forums. I'm a Perl data munger, but they're moving me into the web stuff now so I've got a lot to learn and very little time to do it in. This place has been an enormous help already.

frigidman

You can set it 'per' virtualhost in apache:

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
	php_value magic_quotes_gpc "off"
	php_value magic_quotes_runtime "off"
	php_value magic_quotes_sybase "off"
</IfModule>

I use the apache setting for site specific config changes like include_path... so it should work just the same for any other config var values.