How to change magic_quotes_off in PHP?

It is in 'php.ini' http://us2.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php#ini.magic-quotes-gpc .  It can also be set in '.htaccess' if you are running under Apache.  It can not be changed by your code because it is a value that needs to be known before your page is run.

'.htaccess' is a file that can be used with an Apache web server to set some directives in the directories where they need to be used instead of in the master file for all directories.

Sorry,

But I don't understand the link, how i can access the .htaccess file and change the setting?

The link says: "f the magic_quotes_sybase directive is also ON it will completely override magic_quotes_gpc", what exactly this means? Is correct for Off too?

The page on PHP.net tells you what it means.  The first thing to know is that it is not something critical.  About half of my web sites have it on and half have it off and I can still run the same programs on them.  It will not stop you from running PHP programs.

Where is your web site?  Are you on an Apache web server?  Shared hosting?

Local Apache web server

In my installations of PHP I can make my own .htaccess files and my own PHP.INI files, so I turn off the things I do not want.  And I'm with DaveBaldwin on this issue - you need to write code that can tolerate either condition.  So in the initialization of all my pages, I have something like this to remove the adverse effects of magic_quotes.

foreach ($_REQUEST as $k => $v)
{
    $_REQUEST[$k] = stripslashes($v);
}

Not very scientific, but it has never failed me yet ;-)

Hi,

But how i can change the setting directly with .htaccess?

"php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off" from http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.disabling.php

But where i enter this line of code?

In your '.htaccess' file which goes in the root directory of your web site.  You will probably have to create the file because it is only used when you need to tell Apache and PHP about something different than the normal configuration.  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/htaccess.html

Can you give me a brief guide on where and how create this file?