Addslashes happening automatically

sametch

I have php 4.2.1 installed on my local machine (w2k, apache).

Whenever I process forms, slashes keep getting added to all quote marks automatically.

If I try using addslashes($string) I end up with three slashes for each quote mark! It's driving me mad because If I upload the same pages to my remote web server, the this does not happen.

In otherwords when debugging code locally I need do nothing to prevent quotemarks messing things up, but remoteley I need to addslashes to all form processed code. So I need two different sets of code!

Does anyone know why this should be happening?

sametch

jamie_kerwick

This is happening because your server has magic quotes switched on. It tries to automatically addslashes to form variables. Using get_magic_quotes you can detect if this is set. There are some examples on how to deal with this on the PHP manual page for get_magic_quotes, or you can do it yourself with stripslashes.

Jamie

morphy_6deex

u can also set a local value for magic_quotes using
ini_set("property","value")

jamie_kerwick

I'm not sure you can set magic quotes to off, according to the manual page turning off magic_quotes_gpc has no effect as the magic quote's function has already been performed. (look in user comments towards the bottom of the page).

Jamie

sametch

Thanks for all your help.

I got around it by turning magic_quotes off inside php.ini

now my local machine works like my server, much less hassle!

sametch🙂