addslashes() and stripslashes()

[sem_db]

It seems my version of php automatically adds slashes to a value submitted from a form. Is this a characteristic of most versions of PHP?
Sincerely >>J.

[michael]

Yes.

Mine does that as well.

There's a purpose to it or so it says in the manual. I'm too tired to recall that though. =-)

Strip the slashes always.

[sem_db]

Thanks, I figured it out. You add the () slash before input character such as (') and (") so that they do not interfere with SQL statements or mySQL Database functions. You can test if you have this feature (addslashes() is run apon entering information into a form) automatically installed by running the function get_magic_quotes_gpc(). Remember to stripslashes() before you display the output to the user. What a great utility!