[FX.php List] FX.php and textarea problem

[Joel Shapiro]

Thanks very much, Derrick.

I'll definitely check out magic_quotes, though this time Dale's meta  
lines seem to have been the perfect fix for my problem.

Best,
-Joel


On Feb 18, 2006, at 8:05 AM, Derrick Fogle wrote:

> Magic_quotes is a PHP setting that automatically escapes quotes,  
> apostrophes, and a few other special characters.
>
> create a file (test.php or something like that) on the server with  
> nothing but:
>
> <? phpinfo(); ?>
>
> in it, and call it up.
>
> Look under Configuration -> PHP Core for magic_quotes_gpc. If it's  
> not on, that means the characters aren't getting escaped. The  
> default setting is for this to be on, if it's not you'll need to  
> track down your php.ini file and search for the magic_quotes  
> settings. Or, use addslashes() where you need characters escaped  
> (but that gets tedious after awhile).
>
> On Feb 17, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>
>> Can you point me to somewhere where I can learn about escaping  
>> 'magicquotes'?
>
>
> Derrick Fogle
> derrick at fogles.net
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> FX.php_List mailing list
> FX.php_List at mail.iviking.org
> http://www.iviking.org/mailman/listinfo/fx.php_list