always disable magic quotes at runtime.

laravel/laravel.php

@@ -58,6 +58,19 @@ error_reporting(-1);
 
 ini_set('display_errors', 'Off');
 
+/**
+ * Even though "Magic Quotes" are deprecated in PHP 5.3, they may
+ * still be enabled on the server. To account for this, we will
+ * strip slashes on all input arrays if magic quotes are turned
+ * on for the server environment.
+ */
+if (magic_quotes())
+{
+	$magic = array(&$_GET, &$_POST, &$_COOKIE, &$_REQUEST);
+
+	array_walk($magic, 'array_strip_slashes');	
+}
+
 /**
  * Load the session using the session manager. The payload will
  * be registered in the IoC container as an instance so it can
@@ -99,6 +112,8 @@ switch (Request::method())
 		else
 		{
 			parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $input);
+
+			if (magic_quotes()) $input = array_strip_slashes($input);
 		}
 }
 
@@ -110,11 +125,6 @@ switch (Request::method())
  */
 unset($input[Request::spoofer]);
 
-if (function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc') and get_magic_quotes_gpc())
-{
-	$input = array_map('stripslashes', $input);	
-}
-
 Input::$input = $input;
 
 /**