PHP - Shorter Magic Quotes Solution

Question

I\'m writing a app that needs to be portable. I know I should disable magic quotes on the PHP configuration but in this case I don\'t know if I can do that, so I\'m using th

Answer 1

Solved it, I had to use the JSON_HEX_APOS flag in json_encode():

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc() === 1)
{
    $_GET = json_decode(stripslashes(json_encode($_GET, JSON_HEX_APOS)), true);
}

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Before (mqgpc.php?name[got'cha]=O'Reilly):

Array
(
    [name] => Array
        (
            [got\'cha] => O\'Reilly
        )
)

After (mqgpc.php?name[got'cha]=O'Reilly):

Array
(
    [name] => Array
        (
            [got'cha] => O'Reilly
        )
)