Why are $_POST variables getting escaped in PHP?
- by George Edison
When my PHP script receives data from an AJAX POST request, the $_POST variables are escaped. The really strange thing is that this only happens on my production server (running PHP 5.2.12 on Linux) and not on my local server (running PHP 5.3.1 on Windows).
Here is the AJAX code:
var pageRequest = false;
if(window.XMLHttpRequest) pageRequest…