single quotes are doubled

[jms8142]

This is strange, but when I'm posting a string from a textbox with a single quote, it gets double.

'''''single quote'''''

becomes

''''''''''single quote''''''''''

magic_quotes_gpc is on, but i didn't think that would make a difference.

double quotes are fine.

Any ideas?

 

[sleipnir214]

Could you post a short code snippet that demonstrates the problem?



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[jms8142]

It's some PHP configuration thing, the code is not doing anything...

<form method=post>
<textarea name="form_content" cols="75" rows="20" wrap="virtual">
</textarea>
<input type=submit value=post>
</form>
<?=$form_content?>

A single quote posted from this text area comes back repeated.

 

[sleipnir214]

What version of PHP are you running on what platform?



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[jms8142]

PHP Version 4.3.2 on Linux

 

[jms8142]

ok, I did some more research on this, and I realize that it's because magic_quotes_sybase is set to on in the php config. This escapes a single quote with another single quote, which is nessessary because they're running mssql queries, which require single quotes to be escaped this way.

Thanks.