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Hi,

I'm fighting with magic quotes and wondering if there are plans to upgrade PHP to v.6 or some other version that doesn't have magic quotes.

Thanks,
Steve

PHP6 doesn't exist yet.

However, magic quotes were deprecated as of php 5.3, which you can use by following the instructions provided here: https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/Php5

Thanks, Rodrigo.

I'm a little confused about how magic quotes is working. I'm using a form that uses string data from a database. Some of the strings have apostrophes (e.g., "Land's End").

The string that $_POST returns from the form is "Land" as if the ' as not been escaped. But if I add a \ to the string in the database (e.g., "Land\'s End") I get "Land\\'s End" as if magic quotes has escaped the added \.

Why does it escape the \ but not the original ' ?

This might help: http://php.net/manual/en/security.magic ... abling.php

For database stuff I think you want to be using mysql_real_escape_string or perhaps in php 5.x switch to using
MySQLi and use it's escaping.

If you are trying to install Joomla and struggling with .htaccess files and php.ini, take a look at this forum post http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=774050. By commenting it out or making it look for a true value you can bypass the magic quotes barrier.