# stripslashes

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

stripslashes — Un-quotes a quoted string

### Description

stripslashes ( string `$str` ) : string

Un-quotes a quoted string.

An example use of stripslashes() is when the PHP directive magic_quotes_gpc is `on` (it was on by default before PHP 5.4), and you aren't inserting this data into a place (such as a database) that requires escaping. For example, if you're simply outputting data straight from an HTML form.

### Parameters

`str`

  The input string.

### Return Values

Returns a string with backslashes stripped off. (`\'` becomes `'` and so on.) Double backslashes (`\\`) are made into a single backslash (`\`).

### Examples

Example #1 A stripslashes() example

`<?php
$str = "Is your name O\'reilly?";
// Outputs: Is your name O'reilly?
echo stripslashes($str);
?>`

> Note:

> stripslashes() is not recursive. If you want to apply this function to a multi-dimensional array, you need to use a recursive function.

Example #2 Using stripslashes() on an array

`<?php
function stripslashes_deep($value)
{
$value = is_array($value) ?
array_map('stripslashes_deep', $value) :
stripslashes($value);
return $value;
}
// Example
$array = array("f\\'oo", "b\\'ar", array("fo\\'o", "b\\'ar"));
$array = stripslashes_deep($array);
// Output
print_r($array);
?>`

The above example will output:

    Array
    (
        [0] => f'oo
        [1] => b'ar
        [2] => Array
            (
                [0] => fo'o
                [1] => b'ar
            )

    )

### See Also

- addslashes() - Quote string with slashes
- get_magic_quotes_gpc() - Gets the current configuration setting of magic_quotes_gpc