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Why is fgets() always adding slashes to the string it returns?

Jun 28th, 1999 02:59
Nathan Wallace, Jim Winstead

For example, if fgets() sees this string in the socket:

    <a href="http//www.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a>

it returns:

    <a href=\"http//www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo!</a>

You should check your value of magic_quotes_runtime.

From http://www.php.net/manual/configuration.php3

If magic_quotes_runtime is enabled, most functions that return data from
any sort of external source including databases and text files will have
quotes escaped with a backslash.