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# Why use Magic Quotes

- Useful for beginners

  Magic quotes are implemented in PHP to help code written by beginners from being dangerous. Although SQL Injection is still possible with magic quotes on, the risk is reduced.

- Convenience

  For inserting data into a database, magic quotes essentially runs addslashes() on all Get, Post, and Cookie data, and does so automagically.

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