What are your settings for magic_quotes? magic_quotes_gpc magic_quotes_runtime
in your php.ini. magic_quotes_gpc will automagically addslashes() to incoming GET, POST, and COOKIE data. So you don't need to do it yourself. The defaults to On. magic_quotes_runtime will autmagically addslashes() to data retrieved from a database. This defaults to Off. Also, note that you DO NOT have to stripslash data that comes out of a database just because you used addslashes() on it when you inserted it. If you have a string like "What's up with the " character" and you use addslashes() on it (either automatic with magic_quotes, or manually), then you'll have the string "What\'s up with the \" character" When you insert that into the database, the \ character tells the database that the character after it should be taken as a literal character and not the end of the string. The actual \ doesn't go into the database. If you are seeing the \ in your database, then you are running addslashes() twice on your data. HTH, ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trond Arve Nordheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 6:59 AM Subject: [PHP] Unexpected addslashes/stripslashes-behaviour? > I'm just having a little problem using addslashes/stripslashes here, and I'm > wondering if this actually is the expected behaviour: > > I get text from a form post, let's say "This sucks :\". > I do $text = addslashes($_POST["fieldname"]); and stick $text in a DB. > > When I pull the text back out, and run stripslashes on the text, the result is: > "This sucks :".. the \ is gone... > > Is it supposed to do this? As far as I've seen I need stripslashes on data from > a DB already addslashed... so.. what's going on? > > -- > Trond Arve Nordheim > - "This message has been ROT13-encrypted twice for extra security" > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
