RE: [cobalt-users] IMP escaping special chars. Was: Had Enough of Dan Kriwitsky (OT)

["Clark E. Morgan" <prlhkr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > By the way, does anybody know how to tell IMP not to escape every
> > special character with a slash? - I think, here\'ll appear one, eg.: \'
> > ;-)
>
> Yup. when installing IMP, you need to disable magic_quotes_gpc in your
> php configuration because it opts instead for PHPlibs equivalent (and more
> complete) implementation. The net effect is your escapes are
> being escaped,
> displaying an escape from which there is no escape except by commenting
> out magic_quotes_gpc in php.ini.
>
Oops, I meant to say setting it to off rather than commenting it out. I also
negelected to mention per directory php config options which can be stored
in .htaccess files; but phplib wants to be used globally, so this option is
not very workable in your case.

Clark