stripslashes
stripslashes
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
stripslashes — Un-quotes a quoted string
Description
string stripslashes ( string $str )
Un-quotes a quoted string.
Note:
If magic_quotes_sybase is on, no backslashes are stripped off but two apostrophes are replaced by one instead.
An example use of stripslashes() is when the PHP directive magic_quotes_gpc is on (it was on by default before PHP 5.4), and you aren't inserting this data into a place (such as a database) that requires escaping. For example, if you're simply outputting data straight from an HTML form.
Parameters
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str
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The input string.
Return Values
Returns a string with backslashes stripped off. (\' becomes ' and so on.) Double backslashes (\\) are made into a single backslash (\).
Examples
Example #1 A stripslashes() example
<?php $str = "Is your name O\'reilly?"; // Outputs: Is your name O'reilly? echo stripslashes($str); ?>
Note:
stripslashes() is not recursive. If you want to apply this function to a multi-dimensional array, you need to use a recursive function.
Example #2 Using stripslashes() on an array
<?php function stripslashes_deep($value) { $value = is_array($value) ? array_map('stripslashes_deep', $value) : stripslashes($value); return $value; } // Example $array = array("f\\'oo", "b\\'ar", array("fo\\'o", "b\\'ar")); $array = stripslashes_deep($array); // Output print_r($array); ?>
The above example will output:
Array ( [0] => f'oo [1] => b'ar [2] => Array ( [0] => fo'o [1] => b'ar ) )
See Also
- addslashes() - Quote string with slashes
- get_magic_quotes_gpc() - Gets the current configuration setting of magic_quotes_gpc
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https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php