[FX.php List] FX/FM escaping quotes with a backslash?

[Dale Bengston]

We ran into something similar a few weeks back, where different server  
configs would place different variants of \" and \' in MySQL database  
fields via FX.php (although FX wasn't causing the problem). We started  
trapping the server settings, thusly and removing slashes accordingly.  
We're looking at the value of get_magic_quotes_gpc().

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.get-magic-quotes-gpc.php

Hope this helps,
Dale

On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:22 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> On 10/04/08 1:39 PM, "Tim 'Webko' Booth" <tim at nicheit.com.au> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I've been all over my code and I can't find anything that's doing
>>> this, so
>>> I'm assuming it's either FX (not likely) or FM's XML interface. If
>>> it's the
>>> latter, the only thing I can think of is that the submitting page is
>>> encoded
>>> as ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8, and FM is 'handling' that by  
>>> escaping
>>> non-ASCII characters. An educated but rather wild guess, really.
>>
>> I've had this occur every now and again, but never delved too deeply
>> into why - the places it happened were my own testing pages, so I
>> basically ignored it ;-)
>>
>> Maybe you could apply a stripslashes to it before inserting and see  
>> if
>> that makes a difference?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Webko
>
> Thanks Tim. Just gave it a go but it made no difference. This more- 
> or-less
> confirms for me that it's not FX or PHP doing it, but rather,  
> something on
> the FM side - most likely the XML interface. Luckily it's only an  
> internal
> page that us technical staff use, so it's no biggie from that  
> perspective,
> but I'm still stumped about the 'why'.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Futter
> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
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