How to turn off magic quotes on shared hosting?

Question

I want to turn off PHP's magic quotes. I don't have access to php.ini.

When I tried to add php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off to my .htaccess file, I get a 500 internal server error. This is what my .htaccess file looks like:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

Then I tried to use ini_set('magic_quotes_gpc', 'O'), but that had no effect.

How do I turn magic quotes off?

Answer 1

======================== =============== MY SOLUTION ============================ (rename your php.ini to php5.ini)

and in the top (!), add these:

magic_quotes_gpc = Off
magic_quotes_runtime = Off
magic_quotes_sybase = Off
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so

then in .htaccess, add this (in the top):

SetEnv PHPRC /home/your_path/to/public_html/php5.ini

p.s. change /home/your_path/to/ correctly (you can see that path by executing the <?php phpinfo(); ?> command from a typical .php file.)