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<Magic QuotesWhy not to use Magic Quotes>
Last updated: Thu, 19 May 2005

Why use Magic Quotes

  • Useful for beginners

    Magic quotes are implemented in PHP to help code written by beginners from being dangerous. Although SQL Injection is still possible with magic quotes on, the risk is reduced.

  • Convenience

    For inserting data into a database, magic quotes essentially runs addslashes() on all Get, Post, and Cookie data, and does so automagically.



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<Magic QuotesWhy not to use Magic Quotes>
 Last updated: Thu, 19 May 2005
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