How to turn off magic quotes on shared hosting?

magic-quotes-gpc, php

Solution

As per the manual you can often install a custom php.ini on shared hosting, where mod_php isn't used and the `php_value` directive thus leads to an error. For suexec/FastCGI setups it is quite common to have a per-webspace `php.ini` in any case.

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I don't think O (uppercase letter o) is a valid value to set an ini flag. You need to use a true/false, 1/0, or "on"/"off" value.

ini_set( 'magic_quotes_gpc', 0 );   // doesn't work

EDIT

After checking the list of ini settings, I see that magic_quotes_gpc is a `PHP_INI_PERDIR` setting (after 4.2.3), which means you can't change it with `ini_set()` (only `PHP_INI_ALL` settings can be changed with `ini_set()`)

What this means is you have to use an .htaccess file to do this - OR - implement a script to reverse the effects of magic quotes. Something like this

if ( in_array( strtolower( ini_get( 'magic_quotes_gpc' ) ), array( '1', 'on' ) ) )
{
    $_POST = array_map( 'stripslashes', $_POST );
    $_GET = array_map( 'stripslashes', $_GET );
    $_COOKIE = array_map( 'stripslashes', $_COOKIE );
}

Problem

I want to turn off PHP's magic quotes. I don't have access to php.ini. When I tried to add `php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off` to my .htaccess file, I get a 500 internal server error. This is what my .htaccess file looks like: ``` AddType x-mapp-php5 .php php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off ``` Then I tried to use `ini_set('magic_quotes_gpc', 'O')`, but that had no effect. How do I turn magic quotes off?

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