Question

When i echo:
mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc, ‘”conn”e”cting”‘);

It out put: \”conn\”e\”cting\” on both my remote and local server

which is how it supposed to be, but problem is, it is saving [“conn”e”cting”] to database in my local database, while saving [\”conn\”e\”cting\”] with the back slashes to my remote database. Should I configure my remote database? How? I’m using nearlyfreespeech’s service.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Your remote php.ini has magic quotes enabled.

You can check by running…

var_dump(get_magic_quotes_gpc()); // True means it is enabled

It will escape all the GET, POST & COOKIE super globals automatically – but then escaping again will leave you with a slash that will be inserted.

Disable magic quotes on your server, or use a magic quotes disabler functions if disabling them in impossible.

Update

For the hell of it, here is one I just made up

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {

   function stripSlashesRecursive($array) {
       $stripped = array();
       foreach($array as $key => $member) {
          if (is_array($member)) {
             $stripped[stripslashes($key)] = stripSlashesRecursive($member);
          } else {
              $stripped[stripslashes($key)] = stripslashes($member);
          }
       }

       return $stripped;
    }

    $globals = array('_GET', '_POST', '_COOKIE', '_REQUEST');
    
    foreach($globals as $global) {
       $$global = stripSlashesRecursive($$global);
    }



}

It works!