Thread: What are magic quotes?

Magic quotes is a configuration setting within PHP that means that all data containing a single or double quote, or NUL, will automatically be escaped with a backslash before being entered into a database.

You will need to know whether the setting is on or not so as you can process data correctly that is going into or coming from a database

I'm trying to make a pastebin, how do I disable magic quotes? I'm obviously on x10hosting shared hosting, so I dont have php.ini access

Magic quotes automatically escapes incoming data to the PHP script which helps beginners to unknowingly write better.