can not get slashes in data

[Michael Piaser]

I have a MySQL table with a column which contains a file path. When I issue a SELECT query from Workbench, the data looks good. I see the slashes in the path.

But when PHP issue the SELECT query, the slashes are not returned. The PHP is not doing any special functions to remove slashes.

Even stranger is that this works fine on our production server. It just doesn't work on my local test system. Makes me think that there is a configuration option somewhere that is different. I've compared the PHP.INI settings for "magic quotes" and they are the same.

Any ideas?