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Geek Culture / Forum backslashes stripped during editing - the return of magic quotes?

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Dewi Morgan
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Posted: 22nd Jan 2008 06:17 Edited at: 22nd Jan 2008 06:18
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If you edit a post with backslashes ("\") in, they get stripped even from code blocks.

Not if you just post without editing though.


Test: \\\ 7 slashes.


[on editing, I saw it as you see it now: 3 slashes. So it's when displaying, not when saving. Could even be a FF bug?

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Osiris
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Posted: 22nd Jan 2008 07:18
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It might be a coding thing.

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tha_rami
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Posted: 22nd Jan 2008 08:00 Edited at: 22nd Jan 2008 08:01
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It's a coding thing. The backslash is used in PHP to 'escape' things and that could cause confusion for the code. Most notably if you get a posting error with apostrophes, you'll get a \' instead of just ' - that's because otherwise the forum might error on ya .


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hyrichter
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Posted: 22nd Jan 2008 13:18
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It's a bug with the forum, but I'm not totally sure exactly when it occurs. I've noticed that it shows up a lot more frequently in new users' posts where every single ' has a backslash by it, making it very annoying to read. And then, as you say, when editing, they sometimes disappear. So far, I haven't been able to notice a consistency of when it happens, but I haven't really been trying to debug the forum.

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