Thanks, it was there right infront of me...

Just as a matter of interest, are there security/performance issues with
this setting as well as the magic_quotes_gpc or other oddities that it
could cause?

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 15:54, CPT John W. Holmes wrote:
> > I recently installed 4.3.1 and enabled the magic_quotes_gpc to deal with
> > quotes in mysql inserts.
> > 
> > However, I think I have run into a problem that might be related, and
> > was wondering if there is an easy way to fix it:
> > 
> > I have a script that gets user input from a drop-down, on the action
> > page I search a mysql table for the row matching the selection made
> > previously. What I do then is to extract the result of that "select *
> > from table where data = form_selection" and then to re-insert the data
> > into the table ; note, re-insert, NOT UPDATE ( the app cals for a new
> > row to be added with the updated data, so the "old" row stays intact and
> > a new row is added that contains some of the old row's data plus some
> > new stuff I add).
> > 
> > So, the new insert sql looks as per usual 
> > 
> > insert into table (`var1`,`var2`,`var3`,`var4`,...) values
> > ('$var1','$var2',....);
> > 
> > where $var1, $var2 etc is either "inherited" from the extract of the
> > first querie's result set, or overwritten with my newly generated
> > values. The problem now comes in with this:
> > 
> > If one or more of the extracted variables containes something like 
> > " O'Healy " or something similar that causes trouble with the quotes in
> > the new INSERT sql, well, you see the problem...
> > 
> > And I don't want to have to go and addslashes to all my extracted
> > variables, because there really are a whole heap of them.
> > 
> > So, is there another php.ini setting that I'm missing to help me with
> > this, or maybe a function that will addslashes to all my extracted vars?
> 
> magic_quotes_runtime in php.ini
> 
> ---John Holmes...


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