Disable magic_quotes

[swedman]

Hi, I am a pretty new user here with about a mount maybe time here, but I am already stuck.

I am currently developing a new site for my clan / group / community with PHP and so far I got a nice news system.

Now for my problem, since magic_quotes is on all my quotes looks like \" instead of " and at the beginning this wasn't a big problem, it only looked ugly. However now when I am finished with a new version I realized it is not compatible with magic_quotes at all.

As a extra info I can tell you that I use mysql_real_escape_string() on all fields where there is a user input.

I searched the forum and on all places it said that you had to apply for PHP v3 for magic_quotes to be disabled, but since applying for new versions has been disabled I really don't know what to do...

The "Upgrade PHP version" in cPanel:

This feature is not currently activated on your account. All accounts are set to x10Hosting's PHP v2. If you are not sure what that means, don't worry about it.

 

[lemon-tree]

You can use stripslashes() to get rid of the slashes.

 

[garrettroyce]

magic quotes gpc is a system wide directive. It cannot be canceled at runtime, eg, in your script. lemon-tree's function is the best way to reverse this.

 

[swedman]

I know you can do it that way but it would make my site a lot slower and would require me to rewrite a lot of code. I don't understand why it is not allowed to disable it with .htaccess because many web developers can create nice safe sites without magic quotes. (on the host I used before x10hosting they allowed that and that is where I run my site currently just because of this)

 

[garrettroyce]

I know you can do it that way but it would make my site a lot slower and would require me to rewrite a lot of code. I don't understand why it is not allowed to disable it with .htaccess because many web developers can create nice safe sites without magic quotes. (on the host I used before x10hosting they allowed that and that is where I run my site currently just because of this)

PHP does not allow this, not X10. It is actually impossible to disable magic quotes if it is installed into PHP. http://us3.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php

Notice that magic quotes is deprecated and will be removed as of PHP 6

 

[pythondev]

James @ php.net was always a nut depreciating everythng LOL

but as technology evolves, so must the software...