You can't turn this shit off from runtime?!?!
and...
You cant turn it off from the htaccess if the server you are on doesnt have allowoverrides (or something like that set).

DUMB

That magic quotes shit needs to be gotten rid of. Whoever thought that was a good idea should be punched in the nuts by every programmer having an issue with it, and that will be lots from what I have read.

If you are getting quoting problems, its probably magic quotes playing you for a sucker, and you should go read this section on

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.net

 
http://us.

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 /manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.

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I have to do the stupid function method, but at least when I move my project to a server where I can control the .ini values, then it will fail gracefully.

<middlefinger>magic quotes</middlefinger>

Never knew what that was called but it sure did piss me off when I first started... that was about the first thing I wrote around.

Agree 100%

thats the kind of shit in a language that pisses me off. Nothing should be ON BY DEFAULT serverside that can't be turned off in runtime. GHEY