Yeah, mysql_escape_string() will help you. Best regards, Shiqi Yang -----Original Message----- From: Richard Lynch [mailto:ceo@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 9:42 AM To: Daniel Baughman Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: back slashes On Fri, July 8, 2005 12:48 pm, Jay Blanchard said: > [snip] > Lets say I have a string: > > "c:\www\test" > > I want to insert it into a database, but what ends up getting inserted > is: PHP3 and earlier: http://php.net/addslashes PHP4 (?) and later: http://php.net/myqsl_escape_string > c:wwwtest > > I can not get php to double the back slashes no matter what I do! > > $string = str_replace("\\", "\\\\", $string); This "should" have worked, for \, but there are other characters to worry about... So you must have made a typo or something when you tried this. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
