> Hi all,
>
> With the following in one page:
> <input type=text name=document_title>";
>
> and this in the page called:
> echo "$document_title";
>
> I am receiving two different results from two different environments
> under some circumstances, which is causing me a massive headache.
oh my!
> My development environment is PHP 4.0.3pl1 running on Windows 95.
> My live environment is 4.0.1pl2 running on a Cobalt Raq.
>
> All is well in both the above until the user enters an apostrophe, upon
> which the development environment nicely adds a backslash prior to it,
> allowing it to be saved in Mysql with no additional effort. The live
> environment, however, does not.
this will make perfect sense. live has setting magic_quotes_gpc on, the
dev has magic_quotes_gpc off. this is most likely cause at least. see :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc
> I am trying to build quite an advanced system using PHP and I'm finding
> a number of issues with quotes and double-quotes which makes building
> dependable code extremely difficult and time consuming. Has anyone else
> had trouble getting their applications to be 100% water tight regarding
> user entry?
others have run into similar "issues" as well but after learning why it
usually is okay.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated - I've now spent more than one
> week just messing around with apostrophes in one form or another - this
> is only the latest of my worries - and I'm sure there are more quote
> related issues to come :O)
oh my, should have asked earlier! ;-)
regards,
philip
>
> Gareth Davies
> Progressive Business Services Ltd
>
> +44 (0) 1274 889592 Office
> +44 (0) 1274 889656 Fax
> +44 (0) 7970 733851 Mobile (24 Hour)
>
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