Jonathan Wijaya Loe's blog » backslash http://blog.jloe.net A blog about technology blogging, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, and step by step tutorial with specialties in Microsoft .NET, C#, Zend, and PHP. Also includes wonderful and inspiring stories and jokes. Mon, 02 May 2011 00:05:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 PHP backslash issue http://blog.jloe.net/2009/04/01/php-backslash-issue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=php-backslash-issue http://blog.jloe.net/2009/04/01/php-backslash-issue/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:42:45 +0000 Jonathan Loe http://blog.jloe.net/?p=54 Recently I just encountered a problematic issue with PHP where every request, no matter it’s a GET or POST, all the values are somehow escaped with backslash (). Well, I guess this is due to my lack of knowledge on the existence of PHP default settings reside in apache.

After some research, I found that there is a setting in php that escapes all input from GET, POST and COOKIE (gpc). This setting name is called magic_quotes_gpc. Fortunately, this can easily be switched off in .htaccess by inserting the following line.

php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0

With this line, my painful problem is finally resolved. Personally, I think this switch should never have been switched on into PHP by default as it’s quite confusing for inexperience PHP developer. ;)

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