MySQL PHPMyAdmin Localhost to accept Magic Quotes

I'm having a small problem with my localhost on Ubuntu to accept data posted with apostrophes from a PHP file into the MySQL database.

Example:

It's your birthday!

Will not be accepted by my localhost database and it won't accept anything coming with it either.

Example:

Its your birthday!

Will be accepted by my localhost database and everything else coming with it as long as there's no apostrophes posted.

How can I get my local machine to act 开发者_运维知识库like my server online that accepts apostrophes with the data posted to the database? This will be more ensuring to me that my code works while developing.

I want to make my localhost like my servers that accepts the data without using mysql_real_escape_string().

you need to escape the string before inserting it to database using the mysql_real_escape_string() function see it's docs here

Update: you should put the magic_quotes_gpc to 'on' in your php.ini file this will make the server escape special characters by adding \ before them just like the addslashes() PHP function but I recommend to use mysql_real_escape_string() function because it makes the mysql escape the string and it's better than the add slashes function or you can use a function like this function I use to do this :

function mysql_prep($value) {
  $magic_quotes_active = get_magic_quotes_gpc();
  $new_enough_php = function_exists( "mysql_real_escape_string" );
        // i.e. PHP >= v4.3.0
  if( $new_enough_php )  // PHP v4.3.0 or higher
  {
            // undo any magic quote effects so mysql_real_escape_string can do the work
    if( $magic_quotes_active ) 
    { 
     $value = stripslashes( $value );
    }
     $value = mysql_real_escape_string( $value );
  } else // before PHP v4.3.0
     { 
      // if magic quotes aren't already on then add slashes manually
         if( !$magic_quotes_active ) 
         { 
         $value = addslashes( $value ); 
         }
    // if magic quotes are active, then the slashes already exist
      }
  return $value;
 }

I want to make my localhost like my servers that accepts the data without using mysql_real_escape_string().

You should do it the other way around. Magic quotes are deprecated and being removed entirely in PHP6, because it was a Bad Idea™. As the manual says, "Relying on this feature is highly discouraged.".