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Indeed; running with magic_quotes switched on just encourages poor practice. However, sometimes you can't always control the environment to that level - either you don't have access to manage the server, or your application has to coexist with applications that (shudder) depend on such configuration. For these reasons, it's good to write portable applications - though obviously the effort is wasted if you do control the deployment environment, e.g. because it's an in-house application, or only going to be used in your specific environment.
– Rob
Commented Apr 24, 2011 at 17:04
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As of PHP 5.4, the abomination known as 'magic quotes' has been killed dead. And good riddance to bad rubbish.
– BryanH
Commented Jan 16, 2013 at 22:45

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