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lessthan
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Thanks for your earlier messages.
I noticed that apostrophes come out oddly in MailBee Lite, e.g.:-
the gardener\'s dog (with preceding \)
instead of
the gardener's dog
I can't remember where I have seen someone comment on it before in the forum. I know this is to do with how php handles the character. Is there a fix? Thanks,
Talat
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Andrew
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The issue is caused by the following setting of your PHP engine:
This setting makes PHP to forcedly quote singlequotes and doublequotes with backslashes. You can turn off this setting in php.ini:
and the issue will be resolved.
Best regards,
Andrew
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lessthan
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Unfortunately I don't have access, since it is on the University server. But thanks!
Is it possible to code a work-around using unicode? Are any other characters such as @ affected by this feature of php? I notice that the University's webmail client (your rival, Squirrel Mail - not as good, of course!) does not suffer from the problem, although it runs in the same php environment.
Thanks,
Talat
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If your hosting provider allows using .htaccess file, as a workaround, you can add the following instruction into the .htaccess in the web folder of your WebMail PHP installation:
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| php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off |
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You can learn more about "magic quotes" at:
http://php.net/magic_quotes
Please let us know if this helps.
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lessthan
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Thanks, but it didn't work. The information was useful, though. I've also found out a whole lot of useful stuff about .htaccess in the process. The server allows some uses of .htaccess at least, possibly not all.
Using the value "off" just made it impossible to get any pages in the directory, but the following did not:-
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc 0
On the other hand, it didn't stop the magic quotes! I found out that you can use php functions like stripquotes() instead. Is this to be recommended? I assume it would be necessary to change the subject line and the body of the e-mails. But I understand that such methods can cause unintended results.
I'm guessing that my server simply doesn't allow people to disable magic quotes and ignores any such request. That, at least, is what appears to happen.
What could you recommend?
Thanks again,
Talat
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lessthan
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No, my mistake: it doesn't work with any value at all, not even "0" instead of "off".
.htaccess does work generally, though.
Talat
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WebMail PHP requires "magic quotes" turned off. You're free to modify WebMail PHP code and implement eliminating the effect of "magic quotes" (using stripquotes() or another way), but such solution will be unsupported.
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lessthan
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Fine, I completely understand that you can't support every users' individual modification needs as far as free software is concerned. I appreciate that you work hard to provide advice on this forum already, and I am among your most grateful users in that regard.
However, this is a major problem that affects more than just me, as I note from the forums. I am considering buying the full commercial version and am therefore testing the free php implementation. It will influence my decision if the ugly slashes remain. I hope that I find a solution, as you may otherwise lose a sale and I may lose the opportunity to use your otherwise excellent software.
This would obviously not be in either of our interests.
I must thank you once again for your exemplary support system. Best wishes,
Talat
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There is no WebMail PHP Pro version yet, it's in development now. Only ASP version of WebMail Pro available now which has no problems with slashes because ASP doesn't provide "magic quotes" feature. But we're going to avoid "magic quotes" problem in the next version of WebMail Lite PHP as well as in WebMail Pro PHP.
Best regards,
Andrew
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