get_magic_qoutes_gpc Deprecated.

[Flinty916]

So I have the following code from the PayPalIPN php file. When running a test submit in sandbox mode, with error reporting on, I get an error. IPN block of code:

$get_magic_quotes_exists = false; if (function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc')) { $get_magic_quotes_exists = true; } foreach ($myPost as $key => $value) { if ($get_magic_quotes_exists == true && get_magic_quotes_gpc() == 1) { $value = urlencode(stripslashes($value)); } else { $value = urlencode($value); } $req .= "&$key=$value"; }

Error
Deprecated: Function get_magic_quotes_gpc() is deprecated

PHP version 7.4.0+ purely because that's when it got deprecated. Any suggestions?

[mickacz]

From PHP 5.4 get_magic_quotes_gpc() "Always returns FALSE because the magic quotes feature was removed from PHP."

edit this:

// Build the body of the verification post request, adding the _notify-validate command.
$req = 'cmd=_notify-validate';
$get_magic_quotes_exists = false;
if (function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc')) {
    $get_magic_quotes_exists = true;
}
foreach ($myPost as $key => $value) {
    if ($get_magic_quotes_exists == true && get_magic_quotes_gpc() == 1) {
        $value = urlencode(stripslashes($value));
    } else {
        $value = urlencode($value);
    }
    $req .= "&$key=$value";
}

to this:

// Build the body of the verification post request, adding the _notify-validate command.
$req = 'cmd=_notify-validate';

foreach ($myPost as $key => $value) {
    $value = urlencode($value);
    $req .= "&$key=$value";
}

and everything will work in PHP 7.4