Great responses, all of them. Thanks everybody for the insight. Apologies if I veered off topic.
-----Original Message----- From: Reindl Harald [mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:56 PM To: internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] 5.4 features vote Am 13.07.2011 21:50, schrieb Moshe, Sam: > What's so wrong with magic quotes that they need to be removed from > the language entirely? they are idiotic because useless for escaping database inputs and you need to find out this setting to remove them by stripslashes() if enabled from some dumb administrator that is why get_magic_quotes-functions are must not removed to avoid breaking clean code - but they magic quotes would never be implemented with a little more thoughts long time ago if you not remove them and they are enabled you get \" in your webpage output, with open eyes you see permanently sites where this happens -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
