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<h1 class="refname">stripslashes</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">stripslashes</span> — <span class="dc-title">Un-quotes a quoted string</span></p>
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.stripslashes-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>stripslashes</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$str</code></span>
)</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Un-quotes a quoted string.
</p>
<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
<p class="para">
If <a href="sybase.configuration.html#ini.magic-quotes-sybase" class="link">magic_quotes_sybase</a> is
on, no backslashes are stripped off but two apostrophes are replaced by
one instead.
</p>
</p></blockquote>
<p class="para">
An example use of <span class="function"><strong>stripslashes()</strong></span> is when the PHP
directive <a href="info.configuration.html#ini.magic-quotes-gpc" class="link">magic_quotes_gpc</a>
is <em>on</em> (it was on by default before PHP 5.4), and you aren't inserting
this data into a place (such as a database) that requires escaping.
For example, if you're simply outputting data straight from an HTML form.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.stripslashes-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
<dl>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">str</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The input string.
</p>
</dd>
</dt>
</dl>
</p>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.stripslashes-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns a string with backslashes stripped off.
(<em>\'</em> becomes <em>'</em> and so on.)
Double backslashes (<em>\\</em>) are made into a single
backslash (<em>\</em>).
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.stripslashes-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
<p class="para">
<div class="example" id="example-4888">
<p><strong>Example #1 A <span class="function"><strong>stripslashes()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$str </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Is your name O\'reilly?"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Outputs: Is your name O'reilly?<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">stripslashes</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$str</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
<p class="para">
<span class="function"><strong>stripslashes()</strong></span> is not recursive. If you want to apply
this function to a multi-dimensional array, you need to use a recursive
function.
</p>
</p></blockquote>
<p class="para">
<div class="example" id="example-4889">
<p><strong>Example #2 Using <span class="function"><strong>stripslashes()</strong></span> on an array</strong></p>
<div class="example-contents">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">function </span><span style="color: #0000BB">stripslashes_deep</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$value</span><span style="color: #007700">)<br />{<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$value </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">is_array</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$value</span><span style="color: #007700">) ?<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">array_map</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'stripslashes_deep'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$value</span><span style="color: #007700">) :<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">stripslashes</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$value</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /> return </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$value</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Example<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$array </span><span style="color: #007700">= array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"f\\'oo"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"b\\'ar"</span><span style="color: #007700">, array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"fo\\'o"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"b\\'ar"</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$array </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">stripslashes_deep</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$array</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Output<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">print_r</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$array</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
<div class="example-contents screen">
<div class="cdata"><pre>
Array
(
[0] => f'oo
[1] => b'ar
[2] => Array
(
[0] => fo'o
[1] => b'ar
)
)
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.stripslashes-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.addslashes.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">addslashes()</a> - Quote string with slashes</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.get-magic-quotes-gpc.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">get_magic_quotes_gpc()</a> - Gets the current configuration setting of magic_quotes_gpc</span></li>
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