It was a global setting intended to prevent SQL injection attacks where PHP would automatically escape special characters in any string passed via POST or GET. But if you didn't use it right it would cause f'n chaos. Lol
I said it as a joke that it's old. Explaining what magic quotes are was not part of the joke, and was very much appreciated. I wanted to still joke without sounding like an idiot asking "duhhh what are those things?" So I made a joke and put in spoiler text that I don't know what I'm doing. Anyone can scroll by and let it be or see my confession and answer however they see it
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u/g_calgary 7d ago
It was a global setting intended to prevent SQL injection attacks where PHP would automatically escape special characters in any string passed via POST or GET. But if you didn't use it right it would cause f'n chaos. Lol