NYCPHP Meetup

[Aaron Fischer]

Dan Cech wrote:

>Aaron,
>
>As it happens I wrote the line in question, so I'll try and explain 
>what's going on ;)
>
>  
>
Most appreciated Dan!

>I think that you're confused about the effect of the magic_quotes_sybase 
>php.ini directive.
>
>  
>
Hmmm, that doesn't surprise me.

>Say you had the string:
>
>I'm heading out on the road
>
>With magic_quotes_gpc=On and magic_quotes_sybase=Off, the string coming 
>in would look like:
>
>I\'m heading out on the road
>
>With magic_quotes_gpc and magic_quotes_sybase both On, the string coming 
>in would look like:
>
>I''m heading out on the road
>
>So, in php/english the idea of that line is:
>
>if (magic_quotes_sybase = On) {
>   // replace '' with '
>   return str_replace ('\'\'', '\'', $var)
>} else {
>   // use regular stripslashes
>   return stripslashes ($var)
>}
>
>You could also write the line as:
>
>return $sybase ? str_replace ("''", "'", $var) : stripslashes ($var);
>
>to have the same effect, but I tend to prefer using single-quoted 
>strings unless I'm actually embedding \n line breaks or variables, so I 
>went with the single-quotes-and-slashes encoding.
>
>Dan
>  
>
Gotcha.  I was thrown off by misinterpreting the search and replace strings.

Thanks, that's very helpful!

Cheers,

-Aaron