If I turn off magic_quotes in an environment where I did not wrote the code, how can I check if any problems may occur? For what do I have to check? Which functions may not work any more?
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If I turn off magic_quotes in an environment where I did not wrote the code, how can I check if any problems may occur? For what do I have to check? Which functions may not work any more?
When magic_quotes turned on, Magic Quotes automatically performs an
addslashes()on all form data submitted. It means that a[\]is placed before every [‘], [“], [], or null in the data, soThat's nicewill be converted toThat\'s niceautomatically. This all happens before your coding even sees that data, so if you’re just passing a string to the next page (not to database) it will print with slashes even though you may not want them at all.