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Magic quotes is a module of php which was implemented in older versions of PHP. In latest versions, the module is depreciated. It is for the purpose of processing of escaping special characters with a ‘\\’ to allow a string to be entered into a database.<\/div>\n
There are three magic quote directives:<\/div>\n
magic_quotes_gpc :- Affects HTTP Request data (GET, POST, and COOKIE). Cannot be set at runtime, and defaults to on in PHP.<\/div>\n
magic_quotes_runtime:- If enabled, most functions that return data from an external source, including databases and text files, will have quotes escaped with a backslash. Can be set at runtime, and defaults to off in PHP.<\/div>\n
magic_quotes_sybase :- If enabled, a single-quote is escaped with a single-quote instead of a backslash. If on, it completely overrides magic_quotes_gpc. Having both directives enabled means only single quotes are escaped as ”. Double quotes, backslashes and NULL’s will remain untouched and unescaped.<\/div>\n
Disabling the Magic Quotes :-<\/div>\n
For disabling Magic quotes, we need to add the following to the php.ini file :-<\/div>\n
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; Magic quotes for incoming GET\/POST\/Cookie data.<\/div>\n
magic_quotes_gpc = Off<\/div>\n
; Magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data from SQL, from exec(), etc.<\/div>\n
magic_quotes_runtime = Off<\/div>\n
; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ‘ with ” instead of \\’).<\/div>\n
magic_quotes_sybase = Off<\/div>\n
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In case of shared hosting, we can make a custom php.ini in the home directory of the particular account. For example under the path :- \/home\/test\/public_html\/php.ini and provided the permissions of the user for the php.ini.<\/div>\n

Magic quotes is a module of php which was implemented in older versions of PHP. In latest versions, the module is depreciated. It is for the purpose of processing of escaping special characters with a ‘\\’ to allow a string to be entered into a database.<\/p>\n

There are three magic quote directives:<\/p>\n