PHP6, Magic quotes & the “best practice“

7/24/2007 12:30:00 AM | Permanent Link | Comments (4)

All the code that was employing the considered “best practice“ for Magic Quotes in PHP, apparently fails when it comes to PHP6, since magic quotes has been officially removed from the sources; a good thing, of course. I discovered this as we moved to a new version of PHP @ work.

So an updated version of what I think would be “best practice“, and backwards compatible.


<?php
     function stripslashes_deep($value)
     {
          $value = is_array($value) ?
          array_map('stripslashes_deep', $value) :
          stripslashes($value);
          return $value;
     }

     if (function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc') && get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
          $_GET = stripslashes_deep($_GET);
          $_POST = stripslashes_deep($_POST);
          $_COOKIE = stripslashes_deep($_COOKIE);
          $_REQUEST = stripslashes_deep($_REQUEST);
     }