Well, I found the files and every instance of addslashes and stripslashes, and um, damn! Yup, I don't know a bit of php.
I've hacked a little php here and there, but I'm not even sure where to begin with this.
The basic jest of the article is to use a function that detects whether magic_quotes_gpc is off or on. This is the example they provided:
<?php
highlight_string ( "<?php
function myAddSlashes( $string ) {
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()==1) {
return ( $string );
} else {
return ( addslashes ( $string ) );
}
}
?>" );
?>
In AMS/class/class.newstory.php, for example, there are a several different places addslashes are used. Here are a couple examples:
$sql = sprintf("UPDATE %s SET title = '%s', published = 0, expired = %u, nohtml = %u, nosmiley = %u, topicid = %u, ihome = %u, topicdisplay = %u, topicalign = '%s', comments = %u, banner= '%s' WHERE storyid = %u", $this->table, $title, $expired, $this->nohtml, $this->nosmiley, $this->topicid, $this->ihome, $this->topicdisplay, $this->topicalign, $this->comments, $myts->addSlashes($this->banner), $this->storyid);
$hometext = $myts->addSlashes($hometext);
Ok, I can put 1+1 together and get 2, and I can code HTML and CSS until the cows come home, but I haven't got a clue how to integrate the function they are describing into the current code. Would it be inline? Would I have to define a global variable?
Also, there are a lot of instances of stripslashes as well. How would I need to modify those instances to prevent errors ?
For example, in AMS/submit.php:
$fldname = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? stripslashes($fldname['name']) : $fldname['name'];
To a php coder, I'm sure my questions are really stupid. Sorry if they are. If I had time to learn php on my own, I wouldn't bother asking, but I'm in a situation where time is a luxury I don't have a lot of.
Any help in getting this complete php n00b started would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thank you,
James
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