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Are there any plans to enable .htaccess security mechanisms on Freeola to allow password controlled websites?
It's something that's automatically enables in php.ini, which is the PHP configuration. It stands for Magic Quotes, Get Post and somethign else for the "C".
Basically, whenever variables are set in PHP using a query string, or "GET" (?threadid=24621&forumid=206¤tsort=desc), or by a form which is sent as POST, it automatically perfoms an addslashes() command on the string. It adds escape characters to all single quotes, double quotes and a load of other stuff. Therefore, a " comes up as \". This is so it doesn;t make mistakes when inserting it all into a database. It's very annoying though because most of the time you're not actually inserting stuff into the database, so every time data moves you have to stripslashes(), especially if it's coming from the user. This is the cause of most irregularities in my code at least.
The only way I know to disable it is to use a .htaccess file. Otherwise, you just have to put up with it!
Basically, whenever variables are set in PHP using a query string, or "GET" (?threadid=24621&forumid=206¤tsort=desc), or by a form which is sent as POST, it automatically perfoms an addslashes() command on the string. It adds escape characters to all single quotes, double quotes and a load of other stuff. Therefore, a " comes up as \". This is so it doesn;t make mistakes when inserting it all into a database. It's very annoying though because most of the time you're not actually inserting stuff into the database, so every time data moves you have to stripslashes(), especially if it's coming from the user. This is the cause of most irregularities in my code at least.
The only way I know to disable it is to use a .htaccess file. Otherwise, you just have to put up with it!
What is magic_quotes_gpc Rob??
Okey doke. I just wanted to disable magic_quotes_gpc. I hate that so much.
It depends on what servers they run, what features are enabled and so on.
Nuh, Freedom2Surf can manage it and they have a STUPID amount of sites hosted there!
On a Unix web server with a large ammount of domains hosted you cannot use .htaccess. It is to do with the virtual hosts files. We have the same problem as we have too many domains to use .htaccess files.