Re: %27 and ' - urlencode
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Re: %27 and ' - urlencode

From: Oli Filth <catch@olifilth.co.uk>
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 12:28:52 CEST

elyob said the following on 09/09/2005 11:21:
> Quite a lot of my data has apostrophes in. I'm passing the data using $_POST
> and urlencode. So, for example, Joe's becomes Joe%27s.
>
> On the next page, I urldecode and display the name in the META title. It
> comes out as Joe\'s.
>
> When I pass it once again, it becomes Joe\\\'s.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?

http://www.php.net/manual/security.magicquotes.php

If you can, disable this feature, cos it's really annoying, as you've
just found out!

-- 
Oli
Received on Tue Oct 18 02:20:53 2005