escape apostrophe's in older version

[davea0511]

I'm running an older verson of a heavily modified AppGini interface, and in that version it does not escape the apostrophe character. This character is messing up one of my lookup fields (it's actually a multi-item select field that I added - not a native appGini feature).

How do I escape the apostrophe?

It will probably be easier to use regex just to prevent it's use ... but I'm an idiot when it comes to regex. Recommendations on how to use it to prevent apostrophe's (like what and where in the code)?

[a.gneady]

please see the documentation of get_magic_quotes_gpc