escape characters added to form data

[O'Hara]

Hi,
Some characters entered in the text fields of a form get an escape
character. What is the reason? How can I prevent/remove this?

Here is an example:
<form action=hello.php method=post>
<input type=text value=firstname>
</form>

If the user enters:
O'Hara

And I have the following file hello.php:
<? echo $_POST['firstname']; ?>

The output is
O\'Hara

[O'Hara]

O'Hara wrote:

Hi,
Some characters entered in the text fields of a form get an escape
character. What is the reason? How can I prevent/remove this?

Problem solved.
I needed to turn off magic_quotes_gpc in /etc/php.ini

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

Sorry if this was a VFAQ.
As for the usefulness of these magic quotes...

[Mazin07]

O'Hara wrote:

O'Hara wrote:

Hi,
Some characters entered in the text fields of a form get an escape
character. What is the reason? How can I prevent/remove this?

Problem solved.
I needed to turn off magic_quotes_gpc in /etc/php.ini

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

Sorry if this was a VFAQ.
As for the usefulness of these magic quotes...

In addition, there's a function specifically for slashes:

StripSlashes( string str )
AddSlashes( string str )

Will add/remove the escape slashes

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID: <43***********************@news.skynet.be>
from O'Hara contained the following:

Problem solved.
I needed to turn off magic_quotes_gpc in /etc/php.ini

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

Sorry if this was a VFAQ.
As for the usefulness of these magic quotes...

Could be very useful if you find yourself on the wrong end of an
injection attack...
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