Backslashes are removed when displaying data

[Former user]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 127

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a database table with some fields that contain backslashes (\)
2. The fields display with the backslashes removed
3. I have verified they exist in the database

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect to see backslashes, instead saw them removed

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
v1.9.2

Please provide any additional information below.
I fixed the problem myself by modifying the following

Replace:
        public function formatString($value)
        {
                return htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($value));
        }

With:
        public function formatString($value)
        {
                return htmlspecialchars($value);
        }


However I'm not sure if there's another use case that requires the stripslashes to
be used in this function.

Reported by [e-mail] on 2012-11-01 00:56:39

[Former user]

OS Ubuntu 12.10
WebServer: Apache 2.2
PHP: 5.4.6

An example of where backslashes are needed is when storing windows paths

Reported by [e-mail] on 2012-11-01 00:58:36

[Christopher Kramer]

Thanks a lot for your bug report and the fix.

The same issue has already been posted as issue #114. (With another usage example.)

Your fix seems to be correct as well. I guess this stripslashes() might have been introduced
to fix a problem caused by Magic Quotes. But as Magic Quotes is deprecated (dropped
completely in PHP 5.4) and mostly disabled anyway, this causes more problems than it
fixes.

I think as mentioned in #114, I will drop the whole formatString() method and use my
new htmlencode() function everywhere instead.

Reported by crazy4chrissi on 2012-11-01 11:50:32 - Status changed: Duplicate - Merged into: #114