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[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

stripslashes()?

On 7/21/06, Derrick Fogle <derrick at fogles.net> wrote:
> PHP has a setting - MagicQuotes - that automatically escapes all
> characters that need escaped, like quotes, apostrophes, and of course
> the backslash, which is the escape character. By default it is on,
> because those characters need to be escaped when putting the data
> into most SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.). You can turn of
> MagicQuotes in your php.ini file, or use the PHP function stripslashes
> () on variables when sending values to the database.
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Erik Andreas Cayr� wrote:
>
> >
> > Den 18/07/2006 kl. 19.29 skrev AC:
> >
> >> If the user types
> >> a'a"a\a
> >> into the comment field, then the database will contain the text
> >> a\'a\"a\\a
> >
> > When I started with FX.php, I had some problems which were similar
> > to the ones you describe here.
> >
> > After a while I got a suggestion to use UTF-8 in my web page, and
> > all trouble just *disappeared*
> > I didn't have to do any conversion at all between user input and
> > database contents...
> >
> > I'm not certain this pertains to you but it's worth a try?
> >
> > Like this:
> >
> >       <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> >
> >
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> Derrick Fogle
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