Thanks philip......I must confess to not having ventured too much into the
PHP.ini file. Simple when you know how, huh?
Thanks again, that's cheered the miserable little mood I've been having this
morning!
Gareth.
----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Gareth Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: PHP List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Version Difference
> > 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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