Slash Appended To All My Posts

Possible Duplicate: Why turning magic_quotes_gpc on in PHP is considered a bad practice? when i get information from a post form, the html form adds slashes before random charac

Solution 1:

This is an old (deprecated) feature of PHP that automagically escapes some characters in strings from various sources ($_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, etc).

The goal was to protect from SQL injection vulnerabilities, but this was not that good.

This can be disabled by setting the magic_quotes_gpc setting to 0 in your php.ini.

If you don't have control over the magic_quotes_gpc setting, you may want to reverse its effect, by using the stripslashes function:

$value = stripslashes($_POST['foo']);

You can do it on all $_POST variables like this:

function stripslashes_r($value) {
    if (is_array($value)) return array_map('stripslashes_r', $value);
    else return stripslashes($value);
}

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
    $_POST = stripslashes_r($_POST);
}

Solution 2:

special characters are escaped. you can remove the backslashes with http://php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php