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.

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