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magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? [message #173868]

Wed, 11 May 2011 07:28

Simon
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Hi,

On my dev machine(s) I have:
magic_quotes_gpc = Off and magic_quotes_runtime = Off

as far as I understand this is the 'preferred' settings when it comes to
magic quotes.

On the live machine I see that the values are:

magic_quotes_gpc = On and magic_quotes_runtime = Off

I think this is a throw back of upgrading from 4.x to 5.x many moons
ago, (the value should not be set as per
http://www.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc).

But as a point of interest, this causes a problem when I try to save
data in the database.
According to http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php

"If magic_quotes_gpc is enabled, first apply stripslashes() to the data.
Using this function on data which has already been escaped will escape
the data twice."

so if I have:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /

// get a proper MySQL connection for mysql_real_escape_string() to work.
....
//
//
$data = 'H\hi'; // a random string that I want to save 'as is' in the
db. Note the 'escaped' character.

//
// now try and save it to the db
//
// Stripslashes if need be
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc())
{
$data = stripslashes($data);
}

// escape
$data = mysql_real_escape_string($data);

echo $data;
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /

You will see that the data has become 'Hhi', the '\' has been stripped,
and the data is no longer saved as expected.

If I turn magic_quotes_gpc=off this is a moot point.
But I was wondering how you could get it to work with magic_quotes_gpc=On

Any suggestions? comments?

Thanks

Simon

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		magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: Simon on Wed, 11 May 2011 07:28
		Re: magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 11 May 2011 10:38
		Re: magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: Simon on Wed, 11 May 2011 11:49
		Re: magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 11 May 2011 15:29
		Re: magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: Michael Fesser on Fri, 13 May 2011 19:25
		Re: magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 13 May 2011 22:44
		Re: magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Wed, 11 May 2011 10:45
		Re: magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: Simon on Wed, 11 May 2011 11:53
		Re: magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Wed, 11 May 2011 14:13
		Re: magic_quotes_gpc() on or off? By: Simon on Wed, 11 May 2011 14:15

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