Re: how to handle inserting special characters into a mysql field

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On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 11:03 -0600, Adam Williams wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies everyone.  I have a question on 
> mysql_real_escape_string().  The PHP example page shows:
> 
> $query = sprintf("SELECT * FROM users WHERE user='%s' AND password='%s'",
>             mysql_real_escape_string($user),
>             mysql_real_escape_string($password));
> 
> and I understand it uses the %s because of sprintf(), to indicate the 
> data is a string.  However, thats not syntax I'm used to seeing.  If I 
> rewrite the code to the following below, will it return the same results 
> or error when queried?
> 
> $user = mysql_real_escape_string($user);
> $password = mysql_real_escape_string($password)
> $query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE user='$user' AND password='$password'";

They are just strings. They are equivalent. You can test by assigning
the first construction technique to $query1 and then the second to
$query2 and comparing.

Cheers,
Rob.
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