Cannot Override magic_quotes_gpc

KEYWORDS: Backslashes Magic Quotes On Server Configuration .htacess

THE CODE ( found on http://www.drupal.org/node/view/2745 and written by kloeschen - many thanks to him!!):

set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc ()) {
array_stripslashes($_POST);
array_stripslashes($_GET);
array_stripslashes($_COOKIES);
}

function array_stripslashes(&$array)
{
if (is_array($array))
while (list($key) = each($array))
{
if (is_array($array[$key]))
{
array_stripslashes($array[$key]);
}
else
{
$array[$key] = stripslashes($array[$key]);
}
}
}

END OF THE CODE

WHAT TO DO WITH IT

Open "common.inc" contained in the folder "includes"

Copy the code above into the file directly below the commented line (the one begining with two slashes on the second line or so).

Save and FTP it up over the old common.inc on your server.

Remove your .htaccess file. It may only require removing the OVERRIDE code from it but since I do not have Mod_rewrite either I chose to remove the file entirely as the other options it sets are not required on my server.

Run it and test. I think this is exactly what I did. If you find any errors post them here and I'll try it out myself on my own server.

Hope this helps.

EDITED:

It strikes be I breezed through the .htaccess bit. If you have a problem with removing it entirely I'll post instructions to edit the offending code out of it so the rest is untouched...bit pressed for time tonight.