Question

I am working on a post type form. The site is wordpress based. While testing the form, I noticed that everytime I use the ”’ character, when the post is posted, it prints out “\'” instead.

For example:

Input: “Bob’s birthday plans.”
Output: “Bob\’s birthday plans.”

How do I stop php or wordpress, whichever is responisble, from doing this?

Answer 1

There seems to be a problem with magicquotes and according to this site, the fix consists in adding the following lines to your theme file:

if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc() ) {
    $_POST      = array_map( 'stripslashes_deep', $_POST );
    $_GET       = array_map( 'stripslashes_deep', $_GET );
    $_COOKIE    = array_map( 'stripslashes_deep', $_COOKIE );
    $_REQUEST   = array_map( 'stripslashes_deep', $_REQUEST );
}

Which would translate to something like, if magic quotes are enabled, remove the slashes from those variable arrays. Therefore fixing your issue.