Strip slashes from user input (if applicable) (See related posts)

you do realize that since it's recursive, you can just do this:

   1  
   2  if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
   3      $_GET = stripslashes_recursive($_GET);
   4      $_POST = stripslashes_recursive($_POST);
   5      $_COOKIE = stripslashes_recursive($_COOKIE);
   6  }

Eh... Yeah! Right! Of course

(thanks :)

OK so I lost the password to my "xolox" account here and I can't seem to find a way to reset my old account. The point is I recently learned that the above recursive function can be used to bring your server down! For an explanation see http://talks.php.net/show/php-best-practices/26 but in short, replace the above with the following:

   1  
   2  <?php
   3  
   4  if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
   5   $in = array(&$_GET, &$_POST, &$_COOKIE);
   6   while (list($k,$v) = each($in)) {
   7    foreach ($v as $key => $val) {
   8     if (!is_array($val)) {
   9      $in[$k][$key] = stripslashes($val);
  10      continue;
  11     }
  12     $in[] =& $in[$k][$key];
  13    }
  14   }
  15   unset($in);
  16  }
  17  
  18  ?>