stripslashes

Un-quotes a quoted string

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Un-quotes a quoted string.

If magic_quotes_sybase is on, no backslashes are stripped off but two apostrophes are replaced by one instead.

An example use of `stripslashes` is when the PHP directive magic_quotes_gpc is `on` (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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`str`

- The input string.

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Returns a string with backslashes stripped off. (`\'` becomes `'` and so on.) Double backslashes (`\\`) are made into a single backslash (`\`).

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### A `stripslashes` example

    <?php
    $str = "Is your name O\'reilly?";

    // Outputs: Is your name O'reilly?
    echo stripslashes($str);
    ?>

`stripslashes` is not recursive. If you want to apply this function to a multi-dimensional array, you need to use a recursive function.

### Using `stripslashes` on an array

    <?php
    function stripslashes_deep($value)
    {
        $value = is_array($value) ?
                    array_map('stripslashes_deep', $value) :
                    stripslashes($value);

        return $value;
    }

    // Example
    $array = array("f\\'oo", "b\\'ar", array("fo\\'o", "b\\'ar"));
    $array = stripslashes_deep($array);

    // Output
    print_r($array);
    ?>

&example.outputs;

    Array
    (
        [0] => f'oo
        [1] => b'ar
        [2] => Array
            (
                [0] => fo'o
                [1] => b'ar
            )

    )

&reftitle.seealso;

- `addslashes`
- `get_magic_quotes_gpc`