Magic Quotes
Why not to use Magic Quotes
Magic Quotes
PHP Manual

## 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.

Magic Quotes
Why not to use Magic Quotes
Magic Quotes
PHP Manual