Thanks much, that made all the difference in the world. The function would be get_magic_quotes_gpc()
Chris Shiflett wrote: > Gerard, > > The most likely reason is a php.ini configuration called magic_quotes. > When enabled, PHP will automatically add slashes to single and double > quotes, as well as slashes themselves (to escape them). This is > helpful in some environments to help protect against attacks that can > be used to execute arbitrary database commands. However, this > particular setting is one of the more annoying ones, in my opinion, > because it makes it more difficult to write portable code. > > Hopefully this answers your question, and you can just check your > php.ini. If you need to dynamically check the configuration, there is > a function that will give you the setting of magic_quote. A quick > reference in the manual will give it to you. > > Oh, also, you cannot disable this per script, because the slashes are > added perior to the data being given to PHP, hence prior to your > script's execution. > > Happy hacking. > > Chris > > Gerard Samuel wrote: > >> A few months ago, I wrote a bit of code to stripslash() >> "PATH_TRANSLATED" on a w2k box, because, >> php was reporting it with double slashes like C:\\winnt\\some_dir >> >> Today I noticed that the code is broken because PATH_TRANSLATED is >> now reported with one slash like C:\winnt\some_dir >> Does anyone know when paths contain double slashes on a w2k box, so >> that I can anticipate for them?? >> >> Thanks for any insight you may provide. > > > > > > -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
