Minor stripinput function problem
Posted by Falk on 04/07/2004

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I've been reviewing how well the recently introduced stripinput function is performing. As I explained, the main reason for dropping the use of htmlentities (to strip out harmful html from certain elements) was to improve PHPFusion's adaptability for Eastern Languages. Work is ongoing to make PHPFusion ready for Eastern support, but during work I discovered a very small flaw.

The stripinput function fails to remove unneeded backslashes (that's \ not /), now this isn't really a problem, since stripslashes can override them, but, as I intend to bring in wc3 xml compliancy in the near future I want to address this now rather than later. So i'm working on an emergency patch to remove these unneeded slashes from your database.

Don't Panic! This is not a serious problem, just a minor irk that I personally would prefer to be ironed out.