Un-quotes a quoted string (original) (raw)

stripslashes

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

stripslashes — Un-quotes a quoted string

Description

stripslashes ( string $str ) : string

Note:

If magic_quotes_sybase is on, no backslashes are stripped off but two apostrophes are replaced by one instead.

An example use of stripslashes() is when the PHP directive magic_quotes_gpc is on (it was on by default before PHP 5.4), and you aren't inserting this data into a place (such as a database) that requires escaping. For example, if you're simply outputting data straight from an HTML form.

Parameters

str

The input string.

Return Values

Returns a string with backslashes stripped off. (\' becomes ' and so on.) Double backslashes (\\) are made into a single backslash (\).

Examples

Example #1 A stripslashes() example

<?php $str = "Is your name O\'reilly?";// Outputs: Is your name O'reilly? echo stripslashes($str); ?>

Note:

stripslashes() is not recursive. If you want to apply this function to a multi-dimensional array, you need to use a recursive function.

Example #2 Using stripslashes() on an array

`<?php
function stripslashes_deep($value)
{ value=isarray(value = is_array(value=isa​rray(value) ?
array_map('stripslashes_deep', $value) :
stripslashes($value);

return

$value;
}// Example
$array = array("f\'oo", "b\'ar", array("fo\'o", "b\'ar")); array=stripslashesdeep(array = stripslashes_deep(array=stripslashesd​eep(array);// Output
print_r($array);
?> `

The above example will output:

Array ( [0] => f'oo [1] => b'ar [2] => Array ( [0] => fo'o [1] => b'ar )

)

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