A lot of shared hosts will have magic quotes turned on by default. This can create some extra overhead depending on your application. Symfony apps prefer to have this turned off. Here’s how you can do it using either an .htaccess or php.ini file in your web root directory.
#.htaccess php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off # php.ini magic_quotes_gpc=off </code>




Thankfully that function is completely removed in PHP v6
By Freehill Media Website Design on Apr 21, 2009