Windows (local) / Linux (hosted) $_SESSION[] output inconsistency

[SpringVark]

Hi

 

My application reads an HTML String from the request, into a session parameter as follows:

 

$_SESSION['post_content'] = $_REQUEST['content'];

 

When I retrieve the value of the posted HTML on the next page

 

<?php echo $_SESSION['post_content'] ?>

 

my local (WAMP) environment's output differs from the the output on my hosted (Linux) environment. The hosted environment escapes all double-quotes (as I imagine the htmlspecialchars() method might do):

 

<div class=\"c\">

 

but my local Windows environment does not (this is the desired behaviour):

 

<div class="c">

 

Obviously this has disausterous consequences when I try to commit the markup to my DB.

 

Is there any reason for the behaviour, and how do I stop it? I do use htmlspecialchars() before committing to the database, but not before any of the screens described above.

 

Any help is much appreciated!

[Daniel0]

This is because of magic quotes.