help explain this section of code

[Mower Blade]

Hi guys I was wondering if you could give me some insight as to what that are doing in this section of code. I am new to PHP and got list at this point. The areas I am looking to get explained are the following. I put them in bold, and one in the colour red.

if ( !defined('IN_PHPBB') ) //check for hacking
{
	die("Hacking attempt");
}

[B]error_reporting  (E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);[/B] // This will NOT report uninitialized variables
[B]set_magic_quotes_runtime(0); [/B]// Disable magic_quotes_runtime

//
// addslashes to vars if magic_quotes_gpc is off
// this is a security precaution to prevent someone
// trying to break out of a SQL statement.
//
if( [COLOR=red][B]![/B][/COLOR]get_magic_quotes_gpc() )
[B]
{
	if( is_array($HTTP_GET_VARS) )
	{
		while( list($k, $v) = each($HTTP_GET_VARS) )
		{
			if( is_array($HTTP_GET_VARS[$k]) )
			{
				while( list($k2, $v2) = each($HTTP_GET_VARS[$k]) )
				{
					$HTTP_GET_VARS[$k][$k2] = addslashes($v2);
				}
				@reset($HTTP_GET_VARS[$k]);
			}
			else
			{
				$HTTP_GET_VARS[$k] = addslashes($v);
			}
		}
		@reset($HTTP_GET_VARS);
	}

	if( is_array($HTTP_POST_VARS) )
	{
		while( list($k, $v) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS) )
		{
			if( is_array($HTTP_POST_VARS[$k]) )
			{
				while( list($k2, $v2) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS[$k]) )
				{
					$HTTP_POST_VARS[$k][$k2] = addslashes($v2);
				}
				@reset($HTTP_POST_VARS[$k]);
			}
			else
			{
				$HTTP_POST_VARS[$k] = addslashes($v);
			}
		}
		@reset($HTTP_POST_VARS);
	}

	if( is_array($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS) )
	{
		while( list($k, $v) = each($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS) )
		{
			if( is_array($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[$k]) )
			{
				while( list($k2, $v2) = each($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[$k]) )
				{
					$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[$k][$k2] = addslashes($v2);
				}
				@reset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[$k]);
			}
			else
			{
				$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[$k] = addslashes($v);
			}
		}
		@reset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS);
	}
}[/B]

[raf]

you ask to explain more a less the complete code ...
it think it would be more efficient if you type in the keywords for each line at www.php.net and read the relevant function-pages in the manual there.