PHP 5.3 automatically escapes $_GET/$_POST from form strings?

Question

My server admin recently upgraded to PHP 5.3 and I\'m getting a weird \"bug\" (or feature, as the PHP folks have it). I had mysql_real_escape_string around most

Answer 1

check http://www.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc option in php.ini