keep textarea input format after using mysql_real_escape_string to store

Question

I am using php5.3.6 and mysql 5.1.56 and CodeIgniter. Here is what I did.

1. Input some text in textarea, something like this:

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   what\'s this?

Answer 1

This really does feel a lot like magic_quotes_gpc = On. Are you disabling it in php.ini or at runtime? It needs to be the former, otherwise it'll remain on.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php

The magic_quotes_gpc directive may only be disabled at the system level, and not at runtime. In otherwords, use of ini_set() is not an option.