[Resolved] ignore qoutations

scorpioy

I installed Apache and PHP on my Windows PC. How could I configure something so that I don't have to always use \ in front of quotations?

Thank you.

LordShryku

They will always need to be escaped somehow for php to recognize them. To remove the automatic escaping, you can turn off magic_quotes_gpc.

philipolson

It's a little misleading to say they need to be escaped to be recognized by PHP, the only reason they do get escaped is so the data can be inserted into a database properly. If one does not escape the data and attempts to INSERT into a database, the queries may break. For example "INSERT INTO foo VALUES ('O'reilly')" would break as it would need to be "INSERT INTO foo VALUES('O\'reilly')" to make it proper SQL. Also for security reasons one should escape it.

The PHP directive magic_quotes_gpc is on by default and it essentially runs addslashes() on all GET, POST, and COOKIE data for you. See also stripslashes().

LordShryku

Originally posted by philipolson
the only reason they do get escaped is so the data can be inserted into a database properly.

Really now.....

Try turning them off, then posting some data containing double quotes to another page and just echo it. Parse errors are bound to ensue when it sees

echo "try " echoing " this";

philipolson

This is false. Please provide us with actual code that will produce these parse errors.