another stripslashes problem

Question

I didnt find a real solution for this. As many others now I use a jquery wysiwyg editor and save the output in mysql. The problem occurs when I load back into editor and save it again. The backslash and the " marks increasing every time when I press submit. Off course before write to DB I do a mysql_real_escape_string().

I use the strpslashes recursively but it doesnt work.

function decodeEscapedString($value) {
  if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {

     $value = is_array($value) ?
       array_map(array('self', 'decodeEscapedString'), $value) :
       stripslashes($value);

     return $value;

  } else
     return stripslashes($value);
}

Could somebody have an idea? thx

If you've got control of the server, why not just disable magic quotes in the first place? It makes everything a whole lot easier. — El Yobo, Aug 15 '11 at 01:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 15 '11 at 00:25

I'd say you have a slight logic error as well as a possible reference error where you have 'self' in the array_map().

Assuming this is a class method, try something like this

public function filter($value)
{
    return get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? $this->clean($value) : $value;
}

protected function clean($value)
{
    return is_array($value) ? array_map(array($this, 'clean'), $value) : stripslashes($value);
}

You then just call the filter() method, eg

$value = $obj->filter($_POST['something']);

Adapted from http://blog.philipbrown.id.au/2008/10/zend-framework-forms-and-magic_quotes_gpc/

another stripslashes problem

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