php - magic quotes

php - magic quotes

Prior to PHP 6 there was a feature called magic quotes that was created 

to help protect newbie programmers from writing bad form processing 

code. Magic quotes would automatically escape risky form data that 

might be used for SQL Injection with a backslash \. The characters 

escaped by PHP include: quote ', double quote ", backslash \ and NULL 

characters.

 However, this newbie protection proved to cause more problems than it 

solved and is not in PHP 6. If your PHP version is any version before 6 

then you should use this lesson to learn more about how magic quotes 

can affect you.

If you received the message "Magic quotes are enabled" then you should 

definitely continue reading this lesson, if not feel free to learn about it in 

case you are developing for servers that might have quotes on or off.