[wp-hackers] single quote in plugin options

Matt Freedman speedboxer at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 02:42:52 UTC 2009


Actually, the quotes are (purposely) added using addslashes() in
wp-includes/wp-db.php before inserting the data into the database.

Regards,
Matt Freedman

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Will
Anderson<wp-hackers at itsananderson.com> wrote:
> By the way, those slashes are due to Magic Quotes, a feature that will be
> removed in PHP 5.3 and 6. If you want to guard your code against future
> releases, or you want to distribute it to people who might have Magic Quotes
> disabled (which can be done fairly easily), you'll probably want to check
> whether Magic Quotes are enabled before calling stripslashes. here's a good
> article on Magic Quotes. At the bottom of the page you'll find a code
> snippet that should give you a good idea of how to do this check.
>
> http://www.tizag.com/phpT/php-magic-quotes.php
>
> Best,
> Will Anderson
> http://www.itsananderson.com/
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Daiv Mowbray <daiv at daivmowbray.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanx very much Matt,
>> stripslashes() is what I needed.
>> before display and before using in my javascript.
>>
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Matt Freedman wrote:
>>
>>  Use stripslashes() before displaying the option.
>>>
>>
>>
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