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PHP Bugs: The Curse of Magic QuotesCategory: PHP, PHP
quietly, patiently, for you to do something reasonable like trying to upgrade the project to a newer version of PHP.
And of all my favorite deprecated functions to run into when evaluating old projects for a conversion to the newest version of PHP, there’s nothing quite like “magic quotes.”
When this directive is enabled it adds slashes to quotes (and a few other things, as mentioned above) in the assumption that it’s helpfully preventing a possible SQL injection attack.
OK, for the sake of argument, let’s assume somehow that a string is passed in that DID contain an SQL injection attempt, and that magic quotes has saved the day.
In other words: PHPMailer doesn’t depend on magic quotes, and this error being thrown into the logs is because they did their jobs correctly.
And of all my favorite deprecated functions to run into when evaluating old projects for a conversion to the newest version of PHP, there’s nothing quite like “magic quotes.”
When this directive is enabled it adds slashes to quotes (and a few other things, as mentioned above) in the assumption that it’s helpfully preventing a possible SQL injection attack.
OK, for the sake of argument, let’s assume somehow that a string is passed in that DID contain an SQL injection attempt, and that magic quotes has saved the day.
In other words: PHPMailer doesn’t depend on magic quotes, and this error being thrown into the logs is because they did their jobs correctly.
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