Why does PHP automatically escape quotes in a textarea field when submitting a form via POST method?

When submitting a form via POST method in PHP, the quotes in a textarea field are automatically escaped to prevent SQL injection attacks and ensure data integrity. This is done by PHP's magic_quotes_gpc setting, which adds slashes to quotes before storing them in the database. To solve this issue, you can use the stripslashes() function to remove the slashes from the textarea field before processing or storing the data. 

// Remove slashes from textarea field
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
    $_POST['textarea_field'] = stripslashes($_POST['textarea_field']);
}

// Process or store the textarea field data
$text = $_POST['textarea_field'];
// Continue with your code

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PHP textarea form POST method escaping quotes

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