[travellinglad]

What does anyone know about Magic quotes within PHP?

If I have data which includes a ' like Cote d'Azur it transforms it to Cote d\'Azur.

I've heard of different ways to solve this problem:

Adding additional code into the PHP script
or Altering the .htaccess file.

Any ideas which is the best route to take and is the code different for every scenario?

[Kieran]

There are functions within php to manipulate this kind of data.

You may like to look at
addslashes()
stripslashes()

Magic quotes are the spawn of satan in my humble opinion. That aside turning them on can cause problems for applications that are written for them to be off.

[travellinglad]

Is this something I could myself or would I be best paying for someone to change the script.

There's two occassions when the \' appears, in the meta tag, i.e.

PHP Code:

<title><? echo $field;?> travel guide</title>

When the $field is Cote d'Azur I get the slash appear

Also when I enter the

PHP Code:

<? echo $field;?>

within the content it comes with a slash too.

Do I simply add stripslashes() to the script?

Thanks for the advice.

[Kieran]

By the sounds of thigns you'd want

stripslashes($field)

For every instance of the field variable exhibiting the problem. No need to spend money

[travellinglad]

Wow that easy! Thanks Keiran, I owe you a pint!

So I have this snippet of code

PHP Code:

<title><? echo $field;?> travel guide</title>

Whereabouts do I put the stripslashes($field) within the code? I tried before the < title > and within it.

Thanks!!

[travellinglad]

Ignore the post - just sorted it!!! Excellent, I've been wanting to get to the bottom of that problem for months!

Thanks Keiran!

[Kieran]

Not a problem, glad its fixed

[travellinglad]

I just wanted to publically thank Kieran for all his help - it was solved, but caused over problems which Kieran kindly sorted for me.

Another reason why I am glad to be with Xilo (despite my moan earlier) is this excellent forum.

[Kieran]

Glad to have been of assistance to you. Feel free to ask if you have any other issues with scripts etc.