Validating email and properly escaping queries

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Originally Posted by Donald Duck

Yes, I'm aware of that. But it was just a reply on CobraCom's post that is just a kiddie. The purpose of my post was to teach him that whenever the GPC is off, stripslashes is not required and may be harmful. Escaping data twice isn't a good idea.

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To add, escaping data twice is the similar-equivalent of no data escaping occuring at all (Except for the fact that the escaped data will be inserted with the data into the database).