magic_quotes fix

I thought I finally found a great host for my Drupal powered site, but was severly dissapointed when I discovered that the php configuration settings chould NOT be changed in any way. I've searched the Drupal site high and low for a fix for this, but have been unsuccessful. Yesterday I finally discovered a fix for this, so for everyone out there avoiding using quotes in their posts or those who have abandoned Drupal becuase of annoying backslashes - this should fix it for you. I created a function like this:

function esac($text) {
$text = eregi_replace('"', '"', $text);
return stripslashes($text);
}

Which removes escape characters that are instered when things are posted and magic_quotes_gpc is on. All you need to do now is add this function to the areas from which data is retreived and data is posted. The main two functions that do this is check_output() and check_form(). Just whack this function into those two functions and your problem should be solved, as long as the module you are using displays data using these functions and uses the standard form functions.

function check_form($text) {
return esac(drupal_specialchars($text, ENT_QUOTES));
}

function check_output($text) {
if (isset($text)) {
$text = esac($text);

// filter content on output:
$text = filter($text);
.....
}