Re: escape characters added to form data
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Re: escape characters added to form data

From: Mazin07 <mazin07@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Sep 24 2005 - 00:45:34 CEST



O'Hara wrote:


> O'Hara wrote:


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>>Hi,


>>Some characters entered in the text fields of a form get an escape


>>character. What is the reason? How can I prevent/remove this?


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> Problem solved.


> I needed to turn off magic_quotes_gpc in /etc/php.ini


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> magic_quotes_gpc = Off


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> Sorry if this was a VFAQ.


> As for the usefulness of these magic quotes...


> 



In addition, there's a function specifically for slashes:



StripSlashes( string str )


AddSlashes( string str )



Will add/remove the escape slashes


Received on Tue Oct 18 02:27:26 2005