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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+  <chapter id="security.magicquotes">
+   <title>Magic Quotes</title>
+   <para>
+    Magic-quotes was added to reduce code written by beginners from being dangerous.
+    If you disable magic quotes, you must be very careful to protect yourself from
+    SQL injection attacks.
+   </para>
+
+   <sect1 id="security.magicquotes.disabling">
+    <title>Disabling Magic Quotes</title>
+    <para>
+     In the interests of writing portable code (code that works
+     in any environment), or, if you do not have access to change
+     php.ini, you may wish to disable the effects of magic quotes
+     on a per-script basis. This can be done several different ways.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     <example>
+      <title>Disabling magic quotes at runtime</title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
+    function stripslashes_deep($value)
+    {
+        $value = is_array($value) ?
+                    array_map('stripslashes_deep', $value) :
+                    stripslashes($value);
+
+        return $value;
+    }
+
+    $_POST = array_map('stripslashes_deep', $_POST);
+    $_GET = array_map('stripslashes_deep', $_GET);
+    $_COOKIE = array_map('stripslashes_deep', $_COOKIE);
+}
+?>
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+    </para>
+   </sect1>
+
+  </chapter>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"../../manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->