Mysteriously added backslashes

Question

Hi,
when working on my local development (xampp, joomla 2.5, php 5.3), all fields with php code add a slash prior to quotation mark, which makes code like

return date('Y-m-d');

look as

return date(\'Y-m-d\');

causing of course disfunction and errors – and with each saving adding more and more backslashes, so that I even found some

return date(\\\\\\\'Y-m-d\\\\\\\');

.
In the live environment (joomla 2.5, php 5.4) this doesn't happen. Is that a bug which has to do with php version or what else might cause that? Thankful for any comment,
Herbert

HerKle · Accepted Answer

Thanks, esl! They were activated in some .htaccess file.So I switchedphp_flag magic_quotes_gpc offand everything is working fine again.

Mysteriously added backslashes

Remove unwanted backslashes added to form code.

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