From: niraj6 at yahoo dot com
Operating system: Windows XP SP2
PHP version: Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem
Bug description: Documentation: Disabling Magic Quotes Example Flawed
Description:
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PHP's magic quotes function has the strange behavior of not adding slashes
to top level keys in GPC key/value pairs but adding the slashes in deeper
level keys. To demonstrate, a URI of:
example.php?a'b[c'd]=e'f
produces:
array("a'b" => array("c\'d" => "e\'f"))
The current example for removing magic quotes does not do anything to
keys, so after running stripslashes_deep, you would end up with:
array("a'b" => array("c\'d" => "e'f"))
Which, needless to say, is wrong. As if you had magic quotes off, it would
have been:
array("a'b" => array("c'd" => "e'f"))
I have written a snippet of code compatible with PHP 4.0.0 and above that
handles this correctly:
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
function undoMagicQuotes($array, $topLevel=true) {
$newArray = array();
foreach($array as $key => $value) {
if (!$topLevel) {
$key = stripslashes($key);
}
if (is_array($value)) {
$newArray[$key] = undoMagicQuotes($value,
false);
}
else {
$newArray[$key] = stripslashes($value);
}
}
return $newArray;
}
$_GET = undoMagicQuotes($_GET);
$_POST = undoMagicQuotes($_POST);
$_COOKIE = undoMagicQuotes($_COOKIE);
$_REQUEST = undoMagicQuotes($_REQUEST);
}
Perhaps you should replace the example in the manual with my code snippet.
Oh and I have left a comment there too for users who visit the page before
you guys fix it. So someone could delete that once it's fixed.
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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39859&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=trysnapshot44
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=trysnapshot52
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Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=needscript
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39859&r=mysqlcfg
