magic_quotes_gpc should be off??

[jeffinj]

Hi, Im was planning on switching from phpbb to vbulletin.

I did a vbulletin test on the hosting server to find out any errors before I can puchase it. It passed all the test but just one.

It said "magic_quotes_gpc should be off for optimal performance, ask your host to change this in php.ini".

Is this a big problem?

Could you tell me what this is exactly?

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

[Steve Machol]

It's not a major issue. Honestly I don't know why we still have that in the test script.

[jeffinj]

:D thanks Steve. im not so bothered about it, then.

[Floris]

A few of my forums run with it OFF and a few with ON. None of them have any problems.

[jeffinj]

thanks again, floris. :)

[msibm]

It's not a major issue. Honestly I don't know why we still have that in the test script.
For safety?

[feldon23]

Yes, but vB and Joomla disagree over which is safer.

As a programmer, I prefer it OFF because then I don't have to do a lot of extra work on $_GET variables.

Joomla says having it ON separates the lazy programmers from the good ones. heh