Prevent WP adding slashes to POST

  • I have a form in the admin area for my plugin, and when a value is submitted that contains single quotes, double quotes, or slashes, wordpress adds slashes to escape them in the POST.

    e.g.
    “Visitor\Country”
    becomes
    \”Visitor\\Country\”

    How do I stop the slashes from being added?

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  • Try stripslashes after you retrieve the content from $_POST.

    Like this:

    $some_content = $_POST[ 'some_content' ];
$some_content = stripslashes( $some_content );

    Bam. Problem solved. ??

    Thread Starter djeyewater

    (@djeyewater)

    Thanks, that works nicely.

    Is there any way I can prevent WP from adding the slashes in the first place? It just seems a bit inefficient for WP to add slashes to all the POST, then for me to have to remove slashes.

    Thread Starter djeyewater

    (@djeyewater)

    Ignore this message

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