but it does do it when I receive an e-mail from my contact form (GPixel-Contact plugin).
Contact the plugin author.
They forgot to put in “stripslashes” in the code. I don’t know the code, or I’d tell you where to put it – so you need to contact the plugin author and inform them.
Why does WP do this?
WP *doesn’t* do this. PHP does if the command to strip the slashes isn’t put in the form code. It’s a PHP thing, not a WordPress thing.
So is there any global option in PHP to turn this off? When people are posting in my forum it also inserts \ in front of any quotes. It didn’t start to do this until I integrated WP functions into my forum.
“So is there any global option in PHP to turn this off?”
Yes, there is. Change magic_quotes_gpc to off.
Thank you! I will give that a try.
hmmmm magic_quotes_gpc are already off, guess that wasn’t it 🙁
The slash problem seems to be caused by the fact that recent versions of WordPress slash everything that gets posted. Unfortunately, Vanilla isn’t expecting this.
You can keep these slashes from appearing by adding, the following lines at the end of your Vanilla database.php file:
$_GET = stripslashes_deep($_GET );
$_POST = stripslashes_deep($_POST );
$_COOKIE = stripslashes_deep($_COOKIE);
Author of above code: filosofo
Finally a workaround!
