Comments on: Getting Rid of Unwanted Backslashes in WordPress Form Input

By: Kieran Mitchell

Kieran Mitchell — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:06:04 +0000

In reply to JD. Been trying to disable magic quotes for nearly 3 days straight. Until I saw this comment, nothing had worked. Thanks!!

By: bryceadams

bryceadams — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:31:00 +0000

In reply to Vaibhav Bhanushali.

You might as well just do it without any conditional.
$_POST = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_POST );
$_GET = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_GET );
$_COOKIE = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_COOKIE );
$_REQUEST = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_REQUEST );

By: cracki

cracki — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:33:00 +0000

Thank You

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By: Vaibhav Bhanushali

Vaibhav Bhanushali — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:23:00 +0000

i ran this code to make it work
if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc() ) {
$_POST = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_POST );
$_GET = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_GET );
$_COOKIE = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_COOKIE );
$_REQUEST = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_REQUEST );
} else {
$_POST = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_POST );
$_GET = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_GET );
$_COOKIE = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_COOKIE );
$_REQUEST = array_map( ‘stripslashes_deep’, $_REQUEST );
}

By: Christoffer Riess

Christoffer Riess — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:51:00 +0000

Thank you!.
I just had into my web server
under “get_magic_quotes_gpc” it should be on
when I install WordPress. but apparently off when I use WordPress.
now it works again without problem!

By: JD

JD — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:28:33 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this!!
For anyone that is having problems, it is probably because `if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc() )` is evaluating to FALSE for some reason on certain servers, even though WordPress is turning magic_quotes on. It may work for you if you just leave out the if statement. But if you do that (like I had to), you will need to remove that code when WordPress eventually get’s this right and reforms their use of magic_quotes, or it will strip out slashes that are supposed to be their, like in links, etc.
Hope that helps somebody.

By: Berghain Nightclub

Berghain Nightclub — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:51:30 +0000

Hi, I know this is an old post, but I’d just like to thank you for posting this up – I was pulling my hair out when this problem occured on my site (especially because magic quotes was off), but adding the above code solved the problem! Cheers!

By: Dave Wright

Dave Wright — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:23:48 +0000

The wordpress shopp plugin seems to have a problem including these rogue slashes in notification emails to customers. Your snippet cleared them up. Thanks!