How can the use of magic_quotes_gpc affect the formatting of HTML newsletters in PHP?

Magic_quotes_gpc can add slashes to incoming data, which can interfere with the formatting of HTML content in PHP newsletters. To solve this issue, you can use the stripslashes() function to remove the slashes before displaying the content in the newsletter. 

// Remove magic quotes from incoming data
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
    $_POST = array_map('stripslashes', $_POST);
    $_GET = array_map('stripslashes', $_GET);
    $_COOKIE = array_map('stripslashes', $_COOKIE);
    $_REQUEST = array_map('stripslashes', $_REQUEST);
}

Keywords

magic_quotes_gpc HTML newsletters formatting PHP security

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