Title: Escaping Strings In WordPress
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# Escaping Strings In WordPress
* [ZephyrWest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zephyrwest/)
* (@zephyrwest)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escaping-strings-in-wordpress/)
* I’ve been developing a WordPress plugin and something has been puzzling me… No
matter what the magic_quotes_gpc directive is set to, strings still get escaped
automatically. Here’s an example:
* `';
* if( isset($_POST['submitme']) ) {
echo $_POST['stuff']; }
* echo '
';
* echo "magic_quotes_gpc: ";
echo get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? 'TRUE' : 'FALSE';
* echo '';
} ?>
* I ran the plugin multiple times with magic_quotes_gpc set to “On” and “Off” and
in both cases, the string entered was escaped! And yes, I did restart Apache
and PHP. To make sure, I wrote another script (non-Wordpress plugin) to test
it out:
* `
Untitled Document
*
' . $_POST['stuff'] . ''; } ?>
*
*
* This worked correctly. Can anybody explain why strings still get escaped in WordPress
even when magic_quotes_gpc is set to “Off”?
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* [Mark Jaquith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markjaquith/)
* (@markjaquith)
* [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escaping-strings-in-wordpress/#post-438614)
* WordPress has its own built-in method of ensuring that regardless of what you
have `magic_quote_gpc` set to, GPC stuff gets escaped. This happens very early
on in the WP loading process.
* This is good because plugin authors don’t need to code for both situations… the
data will **always** be escaped.
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