[pmwiki-users] PHP slashes (was ZAP Permissions and Includes)

[The Editor]

On 10/13/06, Crisses <crisses at kinhost.org> wrote:
>
> Try something like this, when you receive the $_POST from the web form:
>
>  if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
>  foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) {
>  $_POST[$key]= stripslashes($value);
>  } }


What is the purpose of this line

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {

Couldn't I just stripslashes on the values?

Cheers,
Caveman