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With “magic quotes” disabled, why does PHP/WordPress continue to auto-escape my POST data?

I think I found it. Problem (bug): http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18322 Solution: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/stripslashes_deep Note: As suggested by @Alexandar O’Mara, you might want to reconsider overwriting the superglobals like this. If it’s appropriate for your situation, for example, you might just “strip locally” using an alternative like $post = array_map(‘stripslashes_deep’, $_POST); Also see @quickshiftin’s excellent answer.

Unrecognized escape sequence for path string containing backslashes

You can either use a double backslash each time or use the @ symbol

How do I escape ampersands in XML so they are rendered as entities in HTML?

When your XML contains &amp;, this will result in the text &. When you use that in HTML, that will be rendered as &.

How do I use spaces in the Command Prompt?

Single quotation marks won’t do in that case. You have to add quotation marks around each path and also enclose the whole command in quotation marks:

What’s the Use of ‘\r’ escape sequence?

\r is a carriage return character; it tells your terminal emulator to move the cursor at the start of the line. The cursor is the position where the next characters will be rendered. So, printing a \r allows to override the current line of the terminal emulator. Tom Zych figured why the output of your … Read more

Escaping HTML strings with jQuery

Since you’re using jQuery, you can just set the element’s text property:

Invalid escape sequence (valid ones are \b \t \n \f \r \” \’ \\ )

You need to escape the “\” in the file path.

How to escape apostrophe (‘) in MySql?

The MySQL documentation you cite actually says a little bit more than you mention. It also says, A “’” inside a string quoted with “’” may be written as “””. (Also, you linked to the MySQL 5.0 version of Table 8.1. Special Character Escape Sequences, and the current version is 5.6 — but the current Table 8.1. Special Character … Read more

What does it mean to escape a string?

Escaping a string means to reduce ambiguity in quotes (and other characters) used in that string. For instance, when you’re defining a string, you typically surround it in either double quotes or single quotes: But what if my string had double quotes within it? Now I have ambiguity – the interpreter doesn’t know where my … Read more

Why shouldn’t `'` be used to escape single quotes?

" is on the official list of valid HTML 4 entities, but ' is not. From C.16. The Named Character Reference ‘: The named character reference ' (the apostrophe, U+0027) was introduced in XML 1.0 but does not appear in HTML. Authors should therefore use ' instead of ' to work as expected in HTML 4 user agents.

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