Cannot turn off magic quotes

[d40sithui]

Tried to do it in php.ini and also .htaccess. neither works. using this script to test. always echos on. any other elements that could be messing with this?

<?
if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){
echo "on";
}
else{
echo "off";
}
?>

 this is in php.ini
; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = off
; Magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data from SQL, from exec(), etc.
magic_quotes_runtime = off  
; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ' with '' instead of \').
magic_quotes_sybase = off

 and this is in .htaccess (whole file)
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
AddType video/avi .avi 
AddType video/mpeg .mpeg 
AddType video/wmv .wmv

[penders]

If you've edited php.ini do you need to restart PHP/Apache?

Is it case-sensitive? If so, try 'Off' (capital 'O') - as you have in your .htaccess file.

Also seen mentioned, if "php_flag" doesn't work in .htaccess, try "php_value" instead?
PHP Manual: Disabling Magic Quotes [uk2.php.net]

[d40sithui]

see the funny thing is, turning off magic quotes works flawlessly on one of my servers. a simple edit to the php.ini and bam (no restartts required)!
however, there's something going on with this other server thats either not reading the php.ini or something...idk.
so now i'll go through my filter function and write the "if gpc quotes are on do this, otherwise do that." just until i figure out what's going on. if ever =/.
thanks for the reply.

[NameNick]

You could always loop through the super globals and do a stripslashes().

NN

[henry0]

see the funny thing is, turning off magic quotes works flawlessly on one of my servers. a simple edit to the php.ini and bam (no restartts required)!
however, there's something going on with this other server thats either not reading the php.ini or something...idk.

It does not work that way
probably when you hit save then it auto-restart Apache

second part: "not reading the php..."
you are not editing the good one
depending on server setup you might see a few php.ini
sym link etc...
so you'll be better of asking your ISP
for that php.ini location.

[kele56]

I'm agree with what henry0 say

[vincevincevince]

Check php_info() and see which php.ini file was loaded. Failing that, if it's a local server, upgrade PHP to 6 (not suitable for production environments yet) where you'll find gpc_magic_quotes to be entirely removed.

[coopster]

It does not work that way

Actually, it depends on the installation. Take CGI for example. Some hosting providers use a cgi-wrapper for every PHP request. Details on the Runtime Configuration [php.net] page.

[d40sithui]

hey i did the phpinfo() thing. guess what? it turns out it was loading a totally different php.ini file. WEAK! lol. havent been able to change that since i do not have root access yet =/.
thanks to all that have contributed, especially mr vince!