Unless I'm even more confused than usual about something I've long believed to be true... MagicQuotes does not ever strip slashes. MagicQuotes does an addslashes before the data gets into the database. Are you viewing the same record all the time, or is it possible that one of your records has an extra \ in it? ----- Original Message ----- From: Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 5:48 PM Subject: [PHP] Magic Quotes - Problems with Inconsistent Behavior removing Slashes > I'm seeing strange behavior with Magic Quotes in PHP on my ISP hosted > accounts. Basically, it's not consistently removing the escaped backslashes > before displaying. > > For instance, take the following piece database text (stored in, say, a > character field).... > > It's fun to be a penguin. > > If I do a simple retrieve and echo on a webpage, I will get the following > 80% of the time.. > > It's fun to be a penguin. > > But, the other 20% of the time I get > > It\'s fun to be a penguin. > > There's something inconsistent about the way MagicQuotes are removed by the > system...it's as if the system gets "busy" or the cache gets flushed before > PHP gets the opportunity to unescape the single quotes. > > Is anyone else seeing this behavior and has any suggestions on how to make > it work more consistent? Yes, I've been including "stripslashes" to try to > make SURE that these slashes get removed, but that doesn't work all the > time EITHER. > > Roy > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]