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Escape Characters Galore [message #8277]

Mon, 20 January 2003 17:59

arksin

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I just set up FUDforum a couple days ago and have noticed that it is inserting multiple escape characters in the posts where ever there is a illegal character. The most notable is the ' character which for some reason gets many escapes. Following is a direct quote from our message board:

While you can\\\'t set in stone what \\\"well being\\\" of the network is;

Is there any way to correct this behavior easily?

Thanks in advance for your help! Smile

Greg Phillips

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Re: Escape Characters Galore [message #8279 is a reply to message #8277]

Mon, 20 January 2003 18:07

Ilia

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You don't need to manually escape characters, that's already done automatically for you.

\'TEST\'

As you can see here it works just fine on this forum even when you do that. The problem may have to do something with your PHP's magic_quote_gpc setting (is it on?).

Also, which version of FUDforum are you using?

FUDforum Core Developer

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Re: Escape Characters Galore [message #8280 is a reply to message #8277]

Mon, 20 January 2003 18:19

arksin

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We aren't escaping the characters ourselfs, it is just comeing out that way.

From my php.ini

magic_quotes_gpc = On

and from our web site

Powered by: FUDforum 2.3.7RC2

Greg

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Re: Escape Characters Galore [message #8281 is a reply to message #8277]

Mon, 20 January 2003 19:04

arksin

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Any ways, possibly I should have given some forthought before posting the last message...

I'm going to be recompiling php this evening to add support into it for a couple other things. If there is anything you can think of I should make sure is in the configuration of php please let me know.

Also to give a little more information to help you help me (very kind of you to do so by the way and I do appreciate it) here is the system info page of our forum:

System Configuration

MySQL Version: PostgreSQL 7.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.3

PHP Version: 4.2.3

Web Server: Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3

WebServer to PHP interface: apache

Forum Version: 2.3.7RC2

Relavent PHP Settings:
Safe Mode: OFF
Display Errors: ON
File Uploads: ON
Magic Quotes: ON
Register Globals: OFF
Output Buffering: OFF
Disabled Functions: none
PSpell Support: No

Thanks,

Greg

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