Strange behaviour with " char

[Correction about previous]

Hi. I found a strange behaviour I cannot explain with the ' char. I do
the following:

1) there is a string with ' inside.
2) I encode the string with urlencode, I put it in a $_GET['arg']
variable
3) in the next page (pointed by the link that included the arg param),
I do $str=urldecode($_GET['arg'])

... then ' comes out as \' ! (?)

Why? In the url arg contains %27 instead of ' ... The thing happens
*even if* I don't use urldecode :O :|

I think there is some processing done by _GET handling but I can't
find anything about this... Plese help :)

bye

Re: Strange behaviour with " char

On Oct 29, 11:58 am, "Gotch@" wrote:
> [Correction about previous]
>
> Hi. I found a strange behaviour I cannot explain with the ' char. I do
> the following:
>
> 1) there is a string with ' inside.
> 2) I encode the string with urlencode, I put it in a $_GET['arg']
> variable
> 3) in the next page (pointed by the link that included the arg param),
> I do $str=urldecode($_GET['arg'])
>
> .. then ' comes out as \' ! (?)
>
> Why? In the url arg contains %27 instead of ' ... The thing happens
> *even if* I don't use urldecode :O :|
>
> I think there is some processing done by _GET handling but I can't
> find anything about this... Plese help :)

magic_qoutes_gpc, disable it, or it you can't, use this:

$arg = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($_GET['arg']) :
$_GET['arg'];

Re: Strange behaviour with " char

Gotch@ wrote:
> [Correction about previous]
>
> Hi. I found a strange behaviour I cannot explain with the ' char. I do
> the following:
>
> 1) there is a string with ' inside.
> 2) I encode the string with urlencode, I put it in a $_GET['arg']
> variable
> 3) in the next page (pointed by the link that included the arg param),
> I do $str=urldecode($_GET['arg'])
>
> .. then ' comes out as \' ! (?)
>
> Why? In the url arg contains %27 instead of ' ... The thing happens
> *even if* I don't use urldecode :O :|
>
> I think there is some processing done by _GET handling but I can't
> find anything about this... Plese help :)
>
> bye
>
>

Your server has magic_quotes_gpc enabled.

If this is your server, I'd recommend you disable it. If it's a shared
server, you can disable it in the .htaccess file, but quite frankly, I'd
recommend you find a different host.

To get around your immediate problem, you can use stripslashes() to
remove the slashes, and get_magic_quotes_gpc() to see if the flag is on
or off.

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Re: Strange behaviour with " char

Tnx to everybody... I can't change my host, but stripcslashes is doing
the job just fine.

Bye :)

On 29 Ott, 11:58, "Gotch@" wrote:
> [Correction about previous]
>
> Hi. I found a strange behaviour I cannot explain with the ' char. I do
> the following:
>
> 1) there is a string with ' inside.
> 2) I encode the string with urlencode, I put it in a $_GET['arg']
> variable
> 3) in the next page (pointed by the link that included the arg param),
> I do $str=urldecode($_GET['arg'])
>
> .. then ' comes out as \' ! (?)
>
> Why? In the url arg contains %27 instead of ' ... The thing happens
> *even if* I don't use urldecode :O :|
>
> I think there is some processing done by _GET handling but I can't
> find anything about this... Plese help :)
>
> bye