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qa-base.php has a line that throws a warning if a $_POST entry is an array:

            foreach ($_POST as $key => $value)
                $_POST[$key]=stripslashes($value);

This doesn't work for a <select> field that has the "multiple" attribute and a name ending in [], e.g.:

<select name="myselect[]" multiple>

since this passes the post variable as an array:

stripslashes() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /var/www/q2a/qa-include/qa-base.php on line 158

Any solution?

EDIT: okay, I found one workaround, also realized it is only a problem for wordpress integration, since the above line is trying to change some wordpress behaviour.  The workaround is to add the folowing to my qa-config.php file:

    foreach($_POST as $i => $p)
        if(is_array($p))
            $_POST[$i] = implode(',',$p);

 
and then re-explode the string later.  Unfortunately, that doesn't help when creating a plugin...

Q2A version: 1.5
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That's odd, since stripslashes should only be called if magic_quotes is detected, otherwise you're removing too much. Incidentally, magic_quotes is no longer in the latest version of PHP.

Let's just try \" and \'
EDIT: well it didn't strip the slashes I put on those quotes...
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no, the problem is that the select value is being passed as array to $_POST, and you can't perform stripslashes on an array...
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I understood that. I was just wondering why it calls stripslashes in the first place anyway...
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The comment says:

             // Undo WordPress's addition of magic quotes to various things (leave $_COOKIE as is since WP code might need that)

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Thanks for this. I'll try to fix it for Q2A 1.5.1. You're right that plugins can't do much about this, since it all happens before they are loaded.
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