Shoutbox

ive just paid for some new hosting and a domain with invisional hosting and all of a sudden there are aload of "\"s everywhere... meaning alot of the code is messed up....

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as you can see, there's a randomly instered \ before every inverted comma (') in the text visible and in some of the includes before every speech mark (") as well... anyone know what's causing this??

I think it's "magic_quotes_gpc".

I'm not sure how to disable it, try stripslashes or something in that fashion.

EDIT:
http://php.net/manual/en/ref.info.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc

I think that this is done to prevent sql injections..
It's for your own good

But the problem is, that I don't know how to prevent sql injections, while not having the "\"...

str_replace() before they're outputted, thats what I do.
If you use a CMS type thing, when writing it to a file/db replace them then.

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But the problem is, that I don't know how to prevent sql injections, while not having the "\"

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addslahes you mean, well you could try mysql excape string, which it slighly more sercure. But it is good your host is doing this, sql injection is a major sercuity hole hackers will look at .

Just use stripslashes on all the sql outputted strings to remove the slashes

ok, awesome, thanks for the help