I have read the magic_quotes posts and still have a problem

[nabawe]

Hi there forum dwellers:

I have been trying to apply many of the work arounds solutions posted in this an other forums to ""fix"" the magic_quotes behaviour (the .htaccess files, php.ini, and funtion replacement between others) and failed, so since my knowledge about all this issues is small I am quite certain I might have made mistakes in some of the implementations therefore I am humbly requesting a bit more direct help.

Here is the deal:

I have a php script that when it runs it installation it checks for:

if(function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc') && get_magic_quotes_gpc()==1)
    {
        echo 'Your PHP configuration has <i>magic quotes</i> enabled, however this is discouraged and may cause problems sending data to the interface.';
        echo 'Please disable it in your PHP configuration or ask your host to do so.';
        echo 'Magic quotes are <a href="http://de.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc">depreciated as of PHP 5.3 and removed in PHP 6</a>. And that’s for a reason. :)';
        exit();
    }

I am quite a PHP, sql ignorant but I understand that if I take out that check out it would compromise to the security, look, performance and functionality of the script.

Yes the scrip will take some data from imput boxes.

Well I am already thanking to the carrying soul that would invest a portion of its precious time to help me.

[misson]

I'm not certain what you want, since you didn't actually ask for something. If you want to know how you can safely get pass the check without disabling magic_quotes_gpc, try replacing the code you quoted with:

if(function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc') && get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
    $_REQUEST; # so $GLOBALS['_REQUEST'] exists
    foreach (array('_GET', '_POST', '_COOKIE', '_REQUEST') as $k) {
        $GLOBALS[$k] = array_map('stripslashes', $GLOBALS[$k]);
    }
} 

You could unroll the loop in the above code, if you wish.

The issue is covered in the thread "PHP/Apache Configuration".